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From: David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>
Newsgroups: linux.debian.user
Subject: Re: Domain name to use on home networks; was: Bookworm:NetworkManager
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2023 01:30:01 +0200
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On Wed 25 Oct 2023 at 08:33:25 (+0200), Erwan David wrote:
> Le 25/10/2023 à 03:47, David Wright a écrit :
> > On Mon 23 Oct 2023 at 12:06:05 (+0200), Christian Groessler wrote:
> > > On 10/23/23 07:29, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 1:24 AM ghe2001 <ghe2001@protonmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > How about a /29 or so, named "here.<your initials>", hosts named 2 or 3 letter abbreviations of what you call the computers, with unroutable IPs, DNS'ed in /etc/hosts (with shortcuts).
> > > > Whatever you come up with for <your initials>, ICANN can add to the
> > > > gTLD namespace; see <https://icannwiki.org/Brand_TLD>.
> > > Just register a daomain and use that.
> > That costs money, and I can't see the point when there are TLDs
> > that are perfectly safe already available, like .home.arpa, and
> > before that, .{corp,home,mail}.
> > 
> Or if you already have a domain, you can use a subdomain. eg. I have
> rail.eu.org, and at home it is depot.rail.eu.org

I'm not sure how that would work when my home network
is on a different continent from my domain's hosting.

Cheers,
David.