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[โ€“] xcjs@programming.dev 29 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I was using .local, but it ran into too many conflicts with an mDNS service I host and vice versa. I switched to .lan, but I'm certainly not going to switch to .internal unless another conflict surfaces.

I've also developed a host-monitoring solution that uses mDNS, so I'm not about to break my own software. ๐Ÿ˜…

[โ€“] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

.internal takes to long to type

[โ€“] xcjs@programming.dev 10 points 2 years ago

Yeah, that's why I started using .lan.

[โ€“] r00ty@kbin.life 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, I don't really have a use at home for mDNS. None that I can think of, anyway. Pretty sure I was using it before MDNS was a thing.

[โ€“] Supermariofan67@programming.dev 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Accessing printers? Resolving hostnames of internal hosts? I can't imagine having a lan without mDNS

[โ€“] r00ty@kbin.life 2 points 2 years ago

Oh. Internal hosts, I just setup on my own DNS.. No need for that. Printer, can't say I've ever had a problem.