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What top-level domain do you use in your local network? (alien.top)
submitted 1 year ago by ElEd0@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum
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I've wanted to install pihole so I can access my machines via DNS, currently I have names for my machines in my /etc/hosts files across some of my machines, but that means that I have to copy the configuration to each machine independently which is not ideal.

I've seen some popular options for top-level domain in local environments are *.box or *.local.

I would like to use something more original and just wanted to know what you guys use to give me some ideas.

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[–] Sir-Kerwin@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can I ask why this is done over something like hosting your own certificate authority? I’m quite new to all this DNS stuff

[–] liquoredonlife@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

If you own your own domain, the lifecycle toolchain to request, renew, deliver certs around a variety of cert authorities (letsencrypt is a popular one) makes it really easy, along with not having to worry about hosting an internal CA but more importantly dealing with distributing root certs to client devices that would need to trust it.

I've used https://github.com/acmesh-official/acme.sh as a one-off for updating my Synology's https certificate (two lines - one fetch, one deploy - finishes in 20 seconds and can be cron'd to run monthly) and Caddy natively handles the entire lifecycle for me (i use cloudflare for my domain registrar which makes it both free and a snap to handle TXT challenge requests).

Certbot is another popular one.