[plug] DNS problem

Bill Kenworthy billk at iinet.net.au
Thu May 24 18:34:01 WST 2001


Some time ago an install I used defaulted to "Localdomain" so ever since
I have set up local domains (home networks) as - you got it -
Localdomain - unlikely ever to be a TLD I think

BillK

Bernard Blackham wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 24 May 2001, Ryan wrote:
> > As long as you make a tld and correctly qualify it in bind it will
> > work internally as if it was a real domain.
> 
> Okay, kinda on the topic, I've done exactly that here with a few machines,
> running all with the domain of .home. A while ago I recall being told or
> hearing somewhere that .home will soon be a TLD, along with a few others.
> Doing some further research I figured they were bluffing about the .home
> bit, but there are some more proposed TLDs, that you'd want to stay away
> from when choosing your domain name.
> 
> http://www.icann.org/tlds/
> 
> So far there's .aero, .biz, .coop, .info, .museum, .name and .pro. Either
> way, if you use a TLD that's fairly unique (perhaps not like .home) then
> you'll be more future-proofed.



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