[wkat4242]

Isn't .local specific to 'rendezvous' tech anyway? I forget the generic name but it was Apple that put it on the map under this name. But I mean that serverless broadcast protocol.

What I do is I just bought a domain and use that together with DNS-based SSL. It's a bit hard to set up with every different SSL server but it's doable.

[ethersteeds]

The non Apple name is multicast DNS or mDNS. mDNS is exclusive to .local, but not necessarily the other way around. From its Wikipedia entry:

"By default, mDNS exclusively resolves hostnames ending with the .local top-level domain. This can cause problems if .local includes hosts that do not implement mDNS but that can be found via a conventional unicast DNS server. Resolving such conflicts requires network-configuration changes that mDNS was designed to avoid."

[aragilar]

Per https://www.iana.org/assignments/special-use-domain-names/sp... and https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6761.html .local. is only for mDNS, but as with any other name you can always misuse it (see .corp. .dev. etc.).

I notice .alt. now exists.

[aspenmayer]

There’s mDNS, zeroconf, and Bonjour.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.local

[lathiat]

Rendezvous = Bonjour = Multicast DNS Service Discovery