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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (10 children)

Well as long as the TLD isn't used by anyone it should work internally regardless of what ICANN says, especially if I add it to etc/hosts

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (6 children)

German router and network products company AVM learned the hard way that this is a bad idea. They use fritz.box for their router interface page and it was great until tld .box became publicly available and somebody registered fritz.box.

Having a reserved local/internal only tld is really great to prevent such issues.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (5 children)

I agree that this is a good idea, but I wanted to add that if someone owns a domain already, they can also use that internally without issue.

If you own a domain and use Let's Encrypt for a star cert, you can have nice, well secured internal applications on your network with trusted certificates.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You don't even need a star cert.. The DNS challenge works for that use case as well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I agree, if you're putting your internal domain names into the public DNS you do not need a star cert.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No, you don't need to do that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Maybe I'm missing something then, how would you pass a DNS challenge?

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