On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 1:11 PM, Louis Lagendijk <louis@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 2016-11-04 at 23:47 +0200, Tom H wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 11:26 PM, Samuel Sieb <samuel@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> On 11/04/2016 02:12 PM, Tom H wrote: >>>> On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 9:58 PM, Michael B Allen <ioplex@xxxxxxxxx >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Of course my local network is a .local domain so it seems at >>>>> least in >>>>> my case mdns cannot really be used effectively. >>>> >>>> That's the problem. ".local" is the default mdns domain. >>>> >>>> You can change it by setting "domain-name=something_else" in >>>> "/etc/avahi/avahi-daemon.conf". >>> >>> Although that would immediately make you incompatible with all the >>> devices >>> you're probably wanting to talk to. :-) >> >> If the ".local" devices that you're connecting to are served by >> regular dns, it's not a problem. >> > this is only partly true. You loose the service discovery features of > mDNS. The OP noticed that mDNS helped setting up the printer (using > mDNS discovery). mDNS is nice for discovery of devices and the services > they offer. Not if you change every one of our devices. > It is a best practice to leave .local for mDNS. Even Microsoft > recommends now against using .local https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.loca > l offers some good information on the subject. > > And for DNS-domains you better use only officially registered domains, > do not invent your own domain names. Somebody may register the TLD you > invented. Or the IETF might define it for some special purpose. > > I heard of a DSL-modem vendor that used .box for local names. And guess > what: somebody registered .box as an official top level domain.... IIRC, Lennart mentioned on fedora-devel@ ".box" as the local domain used by the most popular brand of wifi modems in Germany. It's not that big a deal unless, for example, I have a system on my lan called tom.box and I or someone else has a tom.box on the net. Maybe they're switch to ".fritzbox". _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
