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What hostname do you use for server? home.box or home.local? (self.selfhosted)

submitted 1 year ago by zephyr to c/selfhosted

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

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

For local DNS home.arpa is I think what we're 'supposed' to use, but I use .lan

Only use another domain name if you actually have it registered, like myname.net or something. As a bonus you can then get a wildcard letsencrypt SSL cert for easy HTTPS.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why should you only use ones you own, even if it's just local network?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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.