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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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