I’ve wanted to install pihole so I can access my machines via DNS, currently I have names for my machines in my /etc/hosts files across some of my machines, but that means that I have to copy the configuration to each machine independently which is not ideal.

I’ve seen some popular options for top-level domain in local environments are *.box or *.local.

I would like to use something more original and just wanted to know what you guys use to give me some ideas.

  • @[email protected]B
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    110 months ago

    I use a custom domain for everything…email, internal dns, external (cf tunnels), and my public websites. I use to use AWS Route 53 for everything because of work, but moved to CF because it’s free and much easier to setup and manage.

    For local devices I use *.local.domaingoeshere.com (wildcart cert), issued by cloudlfare. In retrospec I should have used *.int.domain.com as it would be less typing…but everything is categorized and bookmarked anyway.

    • @[email protected]B
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      110 months ago

      Why not use *.domain.com ? If you own the domain you’ll never have a conflict that way