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.

  • iavael@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    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 :)

    • tech2but1@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      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”.

      • iavael@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        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.

        • tech2but1@alien.topBEnglish
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          10 months ago

          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.

          • iavael@alien.topBEnglish
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            10 months ago

            I am not speaking about maintainance of DNS zones (that’s easy), but about maintanance of authoritative DNS servers.