Google .dev domain early access

Re:Google .dev domain early access by ninkendo on Saturday February 16, 2019 @10:23AM (#19178944)

.local is reserved for multicast DNS/zeroconf, by the standard. You literally can’t use it on macos because it will always try to look it up in with mDNS first, and only fall back on /etc/hosts once that fails.

If you use .local for fake DNS for a dev setup, you’ll probably notice lookups are slow; that’s why.

(This is why I’ve always used .dev actually, although this may make me switch to .fuckgoogle or something instead)

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Re:Google .dev domain early access by m45t3r on Saturday February 16, 2019 @12:17PM (#19179615)

> (This is why I’ve always used .dev actually, although this may make me switch to .fuckgoogle or something instead)

Why not .fuckapple? Really, .local is defined for local address, if Apple is using it in a fucked up way this is an Apple problem.

.dev was never destined for local address, it was just because it wasn't registered in ICANN yet.

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Re:Google .dev domain early access by ninkendo on Saturday February 16, 2019 @12:43PM (#19179773)

Apple is adhering to the standard in RFC 6762. .local is intentionally meant for multicast DNS, Apple is doing things correctly.

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Re:Google .dev domain early access by m45t3r on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @06:41PM (#19204160)

Nope, yeah Apple should try to resolve mDNS queries, however it shouldn't ignore local DNS requests or make them a lower priority.

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