zephyr@lemmy.world to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoWhat hostname do you use for server? home.box or home.local?message-squaremessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down10file-text
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minus-squarebeeng@lemmy.fmhy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoWhy should you only use ones you own, even if it’s just local network?
minus-squareMangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoBecause of interference with existing domains. Say you set a computer on your network to mypc.google.com, that won’t work because the DNS server will lookup google.com as an external domain.
Why should you only use ones you own, even if it’s just local network?
Because of interference with existing domains. Say you set a computer on your network to
mypc.google.com, that won’t work because the DNS server will lookup google.com as an external domain.