What hostname do you use for server? home.box or home.local?

@zephyr@lemmy.world · 2 years ago

What hostname do you use for server? home.box or home.local?

@MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone · edit-2 2 years ago

For local DNS home.arpa is I think what we’re ‘supposed’ to use, but I use .lan

Only use another domain name if you actually have it registered, like myname.net or something. As a bonus you can then get a wildcard letsencrypt SSL cert for easy HTTPS.

@beeng@lemmy.fmhy.ml · 2 years ago

Why should you only use ones you own, even if it’s just local network?

@MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 years ago

Because of interference with existing domains. Say you set a computer on your network to mypc.google.com, that won’t work because the DNS server will lookup google.com as an external domain.