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.
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do not use
.local, as tempting as it may beuse
.homepersonally“.home.arpa” for A records.
I run my own CA and DNS, and can create vanity TLDs like: a.git, a.webmail, b.sync, etc for internal services. These are CNAMEs pointing to A records.
RFC 6762 defines the TLDs you can use safely in a local-only context:
*.intranet
*.internal
*.private
*.corp
*.home
*.lanBe a selfhosting rebel, but stick to the RFCs!
How do you get https on those though? A lot of random stuff requires https these days.
https is not a problem. But you’ll need an internal CA and distributed its certificate to your hosts’ trust store.
.damo
I own both `mydomain.com` and `mydomain.net`, and the `.net` is all my internal services (eg `homeassistant.mydomain.net`). The public `.com` domain I use exclusively for email and a static site.
I had some old employer with a similar segmentation so it just made sense to me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
For those using a pihole for .internal.example.com, how do you deal with DNSSEC on example.com? Or do you just not?
I use .lan for anything local and my public domain is .net for anything publicly hosted.
i have owned a .com since 1997. i use that.
If you want to avoid problems, use TLD that are assigned for this purpose, for example
.home.arpaor.homeor.lanor.privateetc.Avoid using
.localbecause its already used by mDNS..uk, but it is an actual .uk that I’ve registered.
I just use my domain inside my network which is a .net
I’ve never used DNS in my local network (because it’s additional burden to support, so I tried to avoid it), but couple of month ago when I needed several internal web-sites on standard http port, I’ve just came up with “localdomain.”
Yep, it’s non-standard too, but probability of it’s usage of gTLD is lowest among all other variants because of it’s usage in Unix world and how non-pretty it is :)
If DNS is a burden to support you’re doing it wrong. I set it up once and haven’t touched it since. Everything new that gets added “just works”.
It’s not like DNS is a huge burden by itself, it’s just approach of avoiding creation of critical services unless they become necessary. Because infrastructure around them is a burden: they needs additional firewall rules on middleboxes, monitoring, redundancy, IaC, backups etc.
I don’t fully follow that but like I said, sounds like you’re doing it wrong if you have to alter firewall rules every time you add a host because of DNS issues.
I am not speaking about maintainance of DNS zones (that’s easy), but about maintanance of authoritative DNS servers.
I’ve got a .com for my internal only services with tls and a .pro for my external facing services. I could probably throw them all on one but because legacy (I didn’t think things through) I have two
I use homelab…org
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.
Why not use *.domain.com ? If you own the domain you’ll never have a conflict that way