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| TLD type | Pseudo-domain-style host suffix |
|---|---|
| Status | Not in root but used by the mDNS protocol. |
| Registry | Machines on the local net can automatically register an address. |
| Intended use | network discovery and configuration |
| Actual use | Local Area Network name resolution |
| Documents | Developer page |
| Website | Mac OS X features |
local is a pseudo-top-level domain used in multicast domain name service (mDNS) of zero configuration networking discovery protocols.
Apple's Bonjour implements mDNS, as does Avahi. If a computer running Mac OS X is not assigned a domain name, it identifies itself as hostname.local.
Name resolution issues may arise if multicast DNS software is used in conjunction with a network that implements the local toplevel DNS domain.
Despite not being a valid top-level domain in the Internet, considerable DNS traffic that queries the local domain exists in the public Domain Name System.[1] In June 2009, the L root server received more than 400 such queries per second,[2] ranking 4th in DNS traffic of all TLDs after COM, ARPA, and NET.
[edit] References
- ^ George Kirikos. "Most Popular Invalid TLDs Should Be Reserved". Circle ID. Archived from the original on 21 June 2009. http://web.archive.org/web/20090621054344/http://www.circleid.com/posts/20090618_most_popular_invalid_tlds_should_be_reserved/. Retrieved 26 June 2009.
- ^ "Most popular TLDs queried on the L-server". Archived from the original on 2009-09-16. http://stats.l.root-servers.org/cgi-bin/dsc-grapher.pl?window=604800&plot=qtype_vs_all_tld&server=L-root. Retrieved 2009-06-26.
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