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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 15/11/12 15:39, Carsten Strotmann
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<pre wrap="">Phil Mayers <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:p.mayers@imperial.ac.uk"><p.mayers@imperial.ac.uk></a> writes:
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<pre wrap="">On 14/11/12 15:02, King, Harold Clyde (Hal) wrote:
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<pre wrap="">I'm a bit confused by a user request. I think he is trying to keep some
hosts on the private side of DNS, but he wants to use a DNS name like
host.sub.local. I do not know of the use of the .local TLD except in
bonjure. Can anyone shed some light on the use of the .local TLD?
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Pick a private sub-domain of a *real* domain that *you* own e.g. if
you are "example.com", pick:
sub.private.example.com
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>From my experience I recommend the solution Phil is describing. While
using a private top level domain is technical possible, I have seen too
many DNS admins that do not understand the implications and end up with
a system that is a burden for the local network and as well a burden for
the root-server system in the Internet.
A private subdomain of a delegated DNS domain owned by the company
(organization, individual) is much more save, and simpler to setup, and
serves the same purpose. </pre>
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I will certainly agree, my story about changing .local to .home to
make things work again has a continuation that I eventually use the
same domain inside the nat and outside, with a split DNS. It gives a
bit more work for DNS administration but makes life very easy for
clients, they see no difference because the names are the same but
resolve to different IPs. I believe the load on the roots is not
influenced by this.<br>
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If having different internal and external domains gives problems
this is a possibility, if the purpose is to isolate internal vs.
external hosts, use different subdomains.<br>
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Just my 0.02$<br>
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-- Carsten
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Best regards
Sten Carlsen
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