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boxen / puppet-dnsmasq

Install the dnsmasq DNS forwarder.
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Use a reserved domain name #4

Closed celkins closed 10 years ago

celkins commented 11 years ago

Both Amazon and Google have applied for the dev TLD. Given that one of those applications may be approved and that using an unreserved domain name is bad form anyway, it would be wise to switch to a reserved domain name. It may not be pretty, but localhost is arguably the most appropriate.

ocxo commented 11 years ago

Namespacing is important. How about appending localhost to the project name: foo.localhost

celkins commented 11 years ago

That's what I was suggesting: localhost as domain name (cf. http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6761#section-6.3).

ocxo commented 11 years ago

:+1:

hrp commented 10 years ago

https://github.com/boxen/puppet-dnsmasq/pull/9

dgoodlad commented 10 years ago

To safely satisfy these needs, four domain names are reserved as listed and described below.

              .test
           .example
           .invalid
         .localhost

 ".test" is recommended for use in testing of current or new DNS
 related code.

 ".example" is recommended for use in documentation or as examples.

 ".invalid" is intended for use in online construction of domain
 names that are sure to be invalid and which it is obvious at a
 glance are invalid.

 The ".localhost" TLD has traditionally been statically defined in
 host DNS implementations as having an A record pointing to the
 loop back IP address and is reserved for such use.  Any other use
 would conflict with widely deployed code which assumes this use.

I don't think that restricting this module to .localhost is the right approach. Even though today we resolve to 127.0.0.1, I'd prefer to default to something which doesn't imply local loopback. .test is short, meant for testing work, and is reserved for this kind of use.

In any case, this TLD should be configurable; I don't want to push this change without a way for organizations to keep their old configuration.

dgoodlad commented 10 years ago

Thanks to @tmcinerney in #12, the TLD is configurable using hiera. We're still defaulting to .dev, but if you're ready to change to another TLD, you can.