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drzaiusapelord
on Nov 22, 2011
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foo@bar.com is a real email address
Wait, why doesnt apple just fix its software? .local isn't reserved. Seems like picking some arbitrary fix over another isn't helping matters.
lambda
on Nov 22, 2011
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Well, .local would be reserved if the mDNS draft,
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-cheshire-dnsext-multicastdn...
, ever progressed to an actual RFC. It is already a de-facto standard, with several implementations.
sipefree
on Nov 22, 2011
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Because in 99.9999% of use cases it won't break.
That, and mDNS already being used as a psuedo-standard with things like Avahi.
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