@zephyr to SelfhostedEnglish • 2 years agoWhat hostname do you use for server? home.box or home.local?message-square70arrow-up141arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up140arrow-down1message-squareWhat hostname do you use for server? home.box or home.local?@zephyr to SelfhostedEnglish • 2 years agomessage-square70file-text
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•2 years agoWhy should you only use ones you own, even if it’s just local network?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•2 years agoBecause 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.
Why should you only use ones you own, even if it’s just local network?
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.