[radlad]

RFC 8375 seems to have approved it specifically to use in Home Networking Control Protocol, though it also states "it is not intended that the use of 'home.arpa.' be restricted solely to networks where HNCP is deployed. Rather, 'home.arpa.' is intended to be the correct domain for uses like the one described for '.home' in [RFC7788]: local name service in residential homenets."

The OpenWrt wiki on Homenet suggests the project might be dead: https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/zeroconfig/hncp_...

Anyone familiar with HNCP? Are there any concerns of conflicts if HNCP becomes "a thing"? I have to say, .home.arpa doesn't exactly roll of the tongue like .internal. Some macOS users seem to have issues with .home.arpa too: https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/1bu62do/homearpa_is_...

[onre]

> I have to say, .home.arpa doesn't exactly roll of the tongue like .internal.

In my native language (Finnish) it's even worse, or better, depending on personal preference - it translates directly to .mildew.lottery-ticket.

[morjom]

It would be more like .mold.ticket

[onre]

Thanks, I always mix up mold and mildew. However, "arpa" is specifically a lottery ticket, whereas there are tickets for concerts, tickets to ride, tickets in Jira etc...

[morjom]

Arpa is used for all kinds of random chance things, not specifically for lottery. I feel like ticket would still be the equivalent but I guess that would be more transliteration and opinion than direct translation? Also my view for lottery may be skewed due to the Finnish lottery culture, and how lottery has more meanings in English. Sorry turned ranty.

[DrBazza]

Arguably, Jira ‘has issues’.

[AndyMcConachie]

Check the errata for RFC 7788. .home being listed in it is a mistake. .home has never been designated for this purpose.

home.arpa is for HNCP.

Use .internal.

[radlad]

I simply quoted RFC 8375. It specifically called out that while RFC 7788 mentions ".home" (quoted below), it wasn't reserved, which ".home.arpa" aims to fix. But while you say "home.arpa is for HNCP", I also quoted RFC 8375 stating it's available for other uses as well.

> A network-wide zone is appended to all single labels or unqualified zones in order to qualify them. ".home" is the default; [...]

[fc417fc802]

I have been commandeering .home for the boxes on my LAN since forever. Why change it?

If I were going to do a bunch of extra work messing with configs I'd be far more inclined to switch all my personal stuff over to GNS for security and privacy reasons.