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...lic DNS, which is authoritative for the public "samdom.com". You would then get the IP of "samdom.com" when looking up a local host. But I agree, that this is a bit of perfectionsm. One can do things simpler. On the other hand: one of my two DCs was down for a week (the one 70km away in the "weekend"-appartment), but the whole network worked flawlessly. These Arm based appliances are definitely less reliable than ordinary PC H/W. I use slave DNS servers on my file servers, which keep at least DNS working whatever the Raspi or the Cubieboard do (better: don...

Hey Peter, many thanks for your reply. --- regarding .local domains I know this is regarded by some as bad form, is actively being discouraged by the samba wiki and can cause problems with bonjour/zerobla configuration. I can say for certain that no apple devices will ever come anywhere near that network and the other drawbacks of .local like getting signed certs... should never be an issue

...ch is authoritative for the public >"samdom.com". You would then get the IP of "samdom.com" when looking up >a local host. >But I agree, that this is a bit of perfectionsm. One can do things simpler. >On the other hand: one of my two DCs was down for a week (the one 70km away >in the "weekend"-appartment), but the whole network worked flawlessly. These >Arm based appliances are definitely less reliable than ordinary PC H/W. I >use slave DNS servers on my file servers, which keep at least DNS working >whatever the Raspi or the Cubieboard do (be...