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What hostname do you use for server? home.box or home.local? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 years ago by zephyr@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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There are many DNS names options. Which one do you use?

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[–] vegetaaaaaaa@lemmy.world 5 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (2 children)

A problem with the .lan TLD (maybe others from this list) is that web browsers do not consider it a TLD when you type it in the address bar, and only show you the option to search for that term in your default search engine. You have to explicitly type https:// before it, to have the option to visit the URL.

E.g type example.com in the address bar -> pressing Enter triggers going to https://example.com. Type example.lan -> pressing Enter triggers a search for example.lan using your default search engine.

[–] distantorigin@kbin.cafe 16 points 3 years ago

Little known trick--or perhaps everyone knows it and is quietly laughing behind my back--with Chromium browsers and Firefox (and maybe Safari, I'm not sure), you can add a slash to the end of an address and it will bypass the search.

So, for example, my router on the LAN goes by the hostname "pfsense". I can then type pfsense.lan/ into my address bar and it will bring me to the web UI, no HTTP/s needed.

[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 years ago

You can throw a / after to force it to recognize as a URL too.