ICANN proposes creating .INTERNAL domain
The plan is to keep the world at bay by never recording it in the DNS root – like many already do with a subdomain for an intranet
.local already exists. More idiocy from ICANN.
.local exists for a very specific reason and it’s not meant to be used by regular DNS… people use it for alternate things, but it’s reserved for mDNS
if .internal were to be added, we could start using that instead of overloading!
.local is a bad choice especially if you have any MAC hosts on the network.
There is an RFC about that, but I'm too sleepy to goook it up
Please no
It would be nice to figure out a way to get local SSL certs for .lan and .local domains though.
Time for your own CA
What's wrong with it?
Internal is 8 letters while lan is three
You can do this, I already use .internal and you can male your own root ca and make your own certificates with that
If only they had done this with .local ages ago. Still, it's a nice change, but I doubt my company will adopt.
We broke .local, pls give another chance, we promise we'll be responsible with .internal tho
Just out of curiosity, does your company use a different TLD or something more arbitrary/just an IP?
Porn sites would like this.
I have clients that use internal, but they do it as a subdomain; so internal.contoso.com
Any internal only domains that I set up are probably going to go the same way. I've used domain.local previously, and the DNS headache I get from that is immeasurable.
With so many things going "to the cloud" or whatever, the internal.domain.tld convention tends to make more sense to me.
What's everyone else doing?
