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[–] distantorigin@kbin.cafe 2 points 3 years ago (1 children)
[–] Cerothen@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 years ago (1 children)

I also use .lan I used to use .local for years until I started to have conflict issues with .local resolution on Android when they started using mdns

[–] distantorigin@kbin.cafe 2 points 3 years ago

I didn't care about any of this (my off the shelf Router used .local) and then I started selfhosting more and using pFsense as a router OS. It defaulted to using home.arpa, which was so objectionable that I spent time looking into RFC 6762 and promptly reverted to .lan forever.

The official choices were: .intranet, .internal, .home, .lan, .corp, and .private. LAN was the shortest and most applicable. Choice made.