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My Verizon Quantum router fires up a dns server automatically that allows all devices in my house to have DNS addresses. That's all nice, but the 'local domain' is .fios-router.home.
The use of .home looks to be to be an accident waiting to happen as the icann oozes towards approving .home as a gTLD. Does the current set of standards offer an option here that cannot collide?
bmargulies
Posted 2015-01-25T22:45:34.050
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As of May 2018, home.arpa. is reserved by RFC 8375.
The other standard option is to register an actual domain, e.g. Verizon could register fios-home.net. and configure it on all their routers. Microsoft has already done so with mshome.net. in their Internet Connection Sharing feature. People do also purchase their own.
That said, home. should be fine for now; while it was planned to be a .gTLD, it's used so widely in LANs that it has been reserved, at least temporarily. internal. is also unlikely to ever be a gTLD. (Do not confuse with the int. TLD.)
Do not use local., as it is reserved for mDNS ("multicast DNS", i.e. Avahi/Bonjour).
user1686
Posted 2015-01-25T22:45:34.050
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1Have some further reading if you want it. – JdeBP – 2015-01-26T11:42:36.143
.local I believe. – psusi – 2015-01-25T22:51:08.320