40 Domain Name Local Network New

However local has since been designated for use in link local networking by rfc 6762 in applications of.

Domain name local network. The server itself may only be accessible inside your network but the dns will be available anywhere. So if your machine s hostname is mediaserver then you can access it on the network by typing mediaserver local into the url bar of any machine that has bonjour avahi on it i e. The domain name local is a special use domain name reserved by the internet engineering task force ietf so that it may not be installed as a top level domain in the domain name system dns of the internet as such it is similar to the other special domain names such as localhost.

All macs plus windows machines with itunes installed. From there it automatically begins using your computer s hostname plus the local extension as it s domain name. Run your own dns server and tell your router to use it as the default resolver for your network.

Domains and domain names dns is a name service that provides a standardized system for providing names to identify tcp ip hosts as well as a way to look up the ip address of a host given the host s dns name.