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I use multicast DNS so that my server in a development VM can automatically publish a hostname to the host for testing.

http://bens.me.uk/2013/multicast-dns-and-development-virtual...

This is especially useful as my application is multi-tenant, where you can potentially use lots of different hostnames.

I'm wary of trusting a development certificate on my development machines. One slight misconfiguration, and you've got a CA with a well-known private key which can be used to generate certificates for any name. Which would be very useful for MITMing a rather important machine.

I accept the inconvenience of having to click through the warnings, with conscious awareness of what I'm doing to avoid training myself to ignore them. I'm not entirely sure which is the bigger risk.