Comment on Let’s Encrypt Begins Supporting IP Address Certificates

• fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I just use openssl"s built in management. I have scripts that set it up and generate a .lan domain, and instructions for adding it to clients. I could make a repo and writeup if you would like?

  As the other commenter pointed out, .lan is not officially sanctioned for local use, but it is not used publicly and is a common choice. However you could use whatever you want.

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• eneff@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  use the official home.arpa as specified in RFC 8375

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  • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    No thanks. I get some people agreed to this, but I’m going to continue to use .lan, like so many others. If they ever register .lan for public use, there will be a lot of people pissed off.

    IMO, the only reason not to assign a top-level domain in the RFC is so that some company can make money on it. The authors were from Cisco and Nominum, a DNS company purchased by Akamai, but that doesnt appear to be the reason why. .home and .homenet were proposed, but this is from the mailing list:

    1. we cannot be sure that using .home is consistent with the existing (ab)use
    2. ICANN is in receipt of about a dozen applications for “.home”, and some of those applicants no doubt have deeper pockets than the IETF does should they decide to litigate

    …ietf.org/…/PWl6CANKKAeeMs1kgBP5YPtiCWg/

    So, corporate fear.

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