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>>fanf2+(OP)
People need to stop using .local or .dev for stuff like this. .dev is an actual TLD in the root zone and .local is for multicast DNS.

ICANN has said they will never delegate .internal and it should be used for these kinds of private uses.

I'm a coauthor on this Internet draft so I'm ofc rather biased.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-davies-internal-tld/

>>AndyMc+FM7
There is a small country road near where I grew up with a highly visible Y intersection that never had a stop sign, because there was almost no traffic and, well it was very easy to see people coming from far away and traffic was quite slow on the bumpy road. Inexplicably, the county came along and installed a stop sign there a few decades ago. People who grew up on that road still run that stop sign to this day, more as a testament to the lack of awareness of the county authorities than anything. But it is an unnecessary annoyance as well.

That is how I feel about the takeover of the .local domain for mDNS. Why step in and take a widely used suffix that is shorter for something that will almost always be automated, instead of taking something longer to leave us alone with our .local setups. I will not forgive, I will not forget!