Basic intranet setup

[Chris Buxton]

I was not able to find an RFC reserving .local. I was, however, able  
to find the following:

1. Microsoft recommends .local as a private TLD for laboratory use in  
setting up a test AD environment.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/324753

2. Apple defined the zeroconf TLD as being .local. They also describe  
how to make .local work for "unicast" DNS (real DNS) as well as  
zeroconf. See section 3 of the following (expired) IETF draft:
http://files.multicastdns.org/draft-cheshire-dnsext-multicastdns.txt

Also:
http://www.multicastdns.org/DLLC/

Chris Buxton
Men & Mice

On Aug 7, 2007, at 1:44 AM, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 11:02:54AM -0700,
>  Chris Buxton <cbuxton at menandmice.com> wrote
>  a message of 49 lines which said:
>
>> BTW: There is a TLD reserved for local use. It's .local.
>
> That's not true. And if you say it is reserved, please indicate the
> RFC number (or the address of the relevant IANA registry).
>
> RFC 2606 is the list of reserved TLD. ".local" is not in it.