Is '.local' officially defined/reserved ?

[Sten Carlsen]

Simon Hobson wrote:

>Sten Carlsen wrote:
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>>It belongs at least to "rendevouz" originally defined by Apple, now 
>>also used by some printer manufacturers and ...
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>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/
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>But, it looks like .local isn't a good choice for a 'local' tld !
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That was also my conclusion, so I switched. A little later I bought my 
own domain so now I use that both internally and externally. Views is a 
nice thing.

>Simon
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