Re:Chromium and Mozilla to enforce 1 year validity for TLS c...
by Karunamon on Monday June 29, 2020 @12:05PM
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.lan is called out in appendix G of the MDNS RFC as "not recommended, but many people do this".
Personally speaking, I'm not too worried about .lan getting registered as a gTLD anytime soon. I'm a lot more worried about forgetting to renew my domain and having things horrifically break if/when that domain gets picked up by someone else. This is a lot more likely...
Re:Chromium and Mozilla to enforce 1 year validity for TLS c...
by jt2190 on Monday June 29, 2020 @05:56PM
(#23683689)
I’m not sure I understand... What would break on your local network if a public domain you own and use only for internal resources is registered by someone else? How is this different from making up a domain name? In both cases you have to set up something to resolve the names to IP addresses on your local network, be it a hosts file or DNS. I would expect that to keep working regardless of the ownership of the domain name.
Using an unregistered domain like .lan has serious security implications. See here: https://serverfault.com/a/17566