Why is Control Center on Monterey listening on ports?

Re:Why is Control Center on Monterey listening on ports? by davidsojevic on Monday November 22, 2021 @04:02AM (#29304336)

You can use the .local, .localhost, .example, and .test TLDs for local domains -- these are IANA reserved: https://www.iana.org/assignments/special-use-domain-names/sp...

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Re:Why is Control Center on Monterey listening on ports? by dantiberian on Monday November 22, 2021 @04:52AM (#29304653)

Only .localhost, .example, .test, and .invalid are reserved for those purposes: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2606. .local is reserved, but for mDNS usage.

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Re:Why is Control Center on Monterey listening on ports? by mschuster91 on Monday November 22, 2021 @04:09AM (#29304380)

.local is used for mDNS these days, don't use it if your network has Apple devices.

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Re:Why is Control Center on Monterey listening on ports? by zinekeller on Monday November 22, 2021 @04:38AM (#29304568)

> don't use it if your network has Apple devices.

As of now, but something about IPv6 also forced Microsoft to implement this, and some Linux distros also does this in CUPS (I know it's Apple...)

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Re:Why is Control Center on Monterey listening on ports? by detaro on Monday November 22, 2021 @04:12AM (#29304407)

not just Apple devices, you'll find mDNS resolvers on many setups. Overrides in the hosts file might be fine, but still, I'd avoid it.

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Re:Why is Control Center on Monterey listening on ports? by tentacleuno on Monday November 22, 2021 @06:11AM (#29305155)

What about .arpa[0]?

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