Is '.local' officially defined/reserved ?

[Simon Hobson]

Sten Carlsen wrote:
>It belongs at least to "rendevouz" originally defined by Apple, now 
>also used by some printer manufacturers and ...
>
>I was hit by it when I bought a Mac. I was using .local as my local 
>tld to prevent any leakage to get far. Everything worked fine, 
>except the Apple, here nothing worked. It started to work when I 
>changed from .local to .home.



>General information about Rendezvous is available at
><http://www.apple.com/macosx/jaguar/rendezvous.html>www.apple.com/macosx/jaguar/rendezvous.html.
>Other resources include <http://www.zeroconf.org>www.zeroconf.org and
><http://www.dns-sd.org>www.dns-sd.org.

Yep, very interesting reading. Following a few links, I found an 
another answer to your "Mac not working with .local" problem at 
http://www.multicastdns.org/DLLC/

But, it looks like .local isn't a good choice for a 'local' tld !

Simon

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