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What top-level domain do you use in your local network? (alien.top)
submitted 2 years ago by [B] to c/main@selfhosted.forum
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I've wanted to install pihole so I can access my machines via DNS, currently I have names for my machines in my /etc/hosts files across some of my machines, but that means that I have to copy the configuration to each machine independently which is not ideal.

I've seen some popular options for top-level domain in local environments are *.box or *.local.

I would like to use something more original and just wanted to know what you guys use to give me some ideas.

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[–] [B] 1 point 2 years ago (4 children)

I've never used DNS in my local network (because it's additional burden to support, so I tried to avoid it), but couple of month ago when I needed several internal web-sites on standard http port, I've just came up with "localdomain."

Yep, it's non-standard too, but probability of it's usage of gTLD is lowest among all other variants because of it's usage in Unix world and how non-pretty it is :)

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  • [–] [B] 1 point 2 years ago (3 children)

    If DNS is a burden to support you're doing it wrong. I set it up once and haven't touched it since. Everything new that gets added "just works".

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  • [–] [B] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    It's not like DNS is a huge burden by itself, it's just approach of avoiding creation of critical services unless they become necessary. Because infrastructure around them is a burden: they needs additional firewall rules on middleboxes, monitoring, redundancy, IaC, backups etc.

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