[GTALUG] server question

[Christopher Browne]

On Wed, 22 Jan 2020 at 12:16, James Knott via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:

> On 2020-01-22 12:05 PM, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote:
> > I tend to use .lan for my local dns names.
>
> I have my own registered domain, so that's what I use.
>

Big "+1" on that...

I use a local subset of a TLD I own.  There is NO risk of some surprise
happening as a consequence of ICANN delegating a new TLD.

I seem to recall there being a problem when the new gTLDs came along where
printers (HP, most likely) started pinging at outside names because "that
would never happen" wound up happening.

It sure would be nice if ICANN or IETF were to declare a TLD or three as
being the TLD equivalent to "non-routable local private IPs" like
192.168.*.*, but this hasn't happened.
-- 
When confronted by a difficult problem, solve it by reducing it to the
question, "How would the Lone Ranger handle this?"
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