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josteink on April 26, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Docker for Mac Beta Review

Or it was a bad idea for apple and bonjour to collide with an established RFC.

Why should everyone else change their ways because apple made an error?

noinsight on April 26, 2016 | [–]

It's not "Apple's error", .local is now an IANA reserved special-use domain name for multicast DNS, i.e. in the same category as .example and .test.

http://www.iana.org/assignments/special-use-domain-names/spe...

detaro on April 26, 2016 | [–]

That RFC was created because of mDNS/Bonjour, to stop others from using that name for other purposes.

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