The plan is to keep the world at bay by never recording it in the DNS root – like many already do with a subdomain for an intranet
  • VelociCatTurd@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    .local is definitely local but it’s common for it to be used with mDNS primarily. To the second part of your question, yes that’s correct, since it will be reserved it will not be any public DNS server, even if it did look outside it wouldn’t find anything.