Posted by nh2 10/24/2024
Publish a zone file for the domain as authoritative master and secondary on an internet facing DNS server, but have basically no records in the zone (no useful A or CNAME or anything else).
Host the actual DNS for your internal services on your internally-accessible-only DNS server.
> As of October 18, 2024, the domain has not been standardized by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), though an Internet-Draft describing the TLD has been submitted.
For Home Assistant for instance, the only reasonable option is .internal - its default .local is not the right TLD to use. [1]
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.
"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."
I notice .alt. now exists.
What if you advertise it on mDNS?