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by ethersteeds 603 days ago
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."
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aragilar 603 days ago
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.

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