Slightly related to the issue of remembering addresses, I think the main issue is with the fact that local nameservers are pretty much non-existent if you’re not running OpenWrt or OpnSense. Which is shameful because the local nameserver is an amazing quality of life tool.
Also the fact that officially there are no local TLDs except for “.arpa” while browsers won’t resolve one word domains without adding http://
And don’t get me started on TLS certificates in local networks… (although dns01 saves the day)
Slightly related to the issue of remembering addresses, I think the main issue is with the fact that local nameservers are pretty much non-existent if you’re not running OpenWrt or OpnSense. Which is shameful because the local nameserver is an amazing quality of life tool.
Also the fact that officially there are no local TLDs except for “.arpa” while browsers won’t resolve one word domains without adding http://
And don’t get me started on TLS certificates in local networks… (although dns01 saves the day)
I don’t get why ‘.local’ isn’t a top level domain for LAN hosts.
I’ve taken to using
.here(or.aqui, “here” in Español, much harder to match outside) as alternatives until something better comes up.Ideally I’d use
.aquí, correctly with the diacritic, but DNS doesn’t seem to support even the basics of Unicode in 2024..localis already used by mDNSAh, that makes sense. I just knew it was unavailable. Apparently
.lanis fine to use, I think I’ll try that next time.I hate this and the fact that modern platforms seem to require TLS even if you’re serving localhost, so much.