router.home vs router.home.arpa

.home.arpa is so clunky. Why do I have to put the acronym of a US military project in my domain to access resources on my own local network?

Yes, I know that organization was central to the development of the l Internet, but it's not relevant as a domain 40 years later.

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0x457 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I just bought mysefl a '.casa' domain, got wildcard cert for it from lets encrypt and haven't bothered with any of these. Downside, if internet goes down resolver stops, but thats why I have local NS mirror and all DNS queries go through my resolver.

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irusensei 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You can buy a cheap domain to make sure no one else uses it and just roll it on your lan. Throw some DNS ACME challenges and you have valid certificates too.

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sieve 10 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I do it for the LE certificate. But "cheap" is subjective. Domain registration and management should not be as expensive as it is. Nothing the registrar or registry does could be worth $8/10/200 a year with guaranteed 5-10% price increases every year. It is a grift.

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procone 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Why should I have to purchase something (yearly subscription, mind) in order to access something that is potentially half a meter away?

This is not how anything should work.

	▲	john_strinlai 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		you dont have to. .internal is fine.

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john_strinlai 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

router.internal avoids the military arconym