User wanting to use a .local domain to host DNS

Novosielski, Ryan novosirj at umdnj.edu
Thu Nov 15 15:14:28 UTC 2012


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On 11/15/2012 09:40 AM, Carsten Strotmann wrote:

> '.local" is the 4th most queried domain name (after localhost, com
> and net), but it should not exist at all in the Internet (or
> queries should not reach the root server system). You see "corp",
> "intern" and "intra" as well in the top 20 list.
> 
> Failing to operate a private TLD correctly is causing internal
> data leaking to the Internet, which could be a security risk but in
> all cases is a burden on the root server system.

Not that I think that I'm doing this (and as I'd said, the only place
I use this is at home on a NAT'd network where there is no public DNS
at all), but what are some common ways to let this happen if you
happen to know?

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