On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 2:10 PM Munir Nassar <nassarmu at gmail.com> wrote: > > I have my own domain, so I use a subdomain that is not on my public dns servers for internal use. You can use anything in the domain part but you really don't want there to ever be a possibility of a collision with a real world domain. .lan is a common default, .localdomain was also frequently used and ive seen .home used as well. > > If you do have your own domain just make up a subdomain that works for you. in my case I am using .ad.(mydomain).net because I am playing with samba-ad-dc > Very interesting. Have domains - - - didn't realize that one could use a sub-domain in this way but then I'm new to this stuff and there is so much to cover. Pity there wouldn't be a poor man's guide to networking. Presently there are seemingly about 20 areas every one of which has gotchas. Thanks!!