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Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2024 11:45:41 -0500
From: Jeffrey Walton <noloader@...il.com>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: David Schinazi <dschinazi.ietf@...il.com>
Subject: Re: mDNS in musl
On Wed, Mar 6, 2024 at 11:15 AM Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 05, 2024 at 11:29:03PM -0800, David Schinazi wrote:
> > [...]
> > Some more info on mDNS: all names that end in ".local" are reserved for use
> > by mDNS, and instead of sending them to the DNS resolver, they're sent
> > locally over multicast - and the machine with that name replies with its IP
> > address. It's used today to discover printers and pretty much everything in
> > home networks.
>
> Last I checked, .local is not actually reserved by any relevant
> specification/authority. It was basically just appropriated by mDNS.
It looks like IANA reserves it, and cites RFC 6762,
<https://www.iana.org/assignments/special-use-domain-names/special-use-domain-names.xhtml>.
Jeff
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