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		pyre on June 20, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: ICANN Approves generic top-level domains localhost would be useless as it's in the hosts file by default. *.localdomain might be interesting. It's around, but I don't think it's the default (I don't know anyone that even uses it though).

kenneth on June 20, 2011 [–]

*.local is used by all Apple devices for Zeroconf (Bonjour.)

Imagine your Mac's hostname is uranium, uranium.local will automatically resolve to the current IP of the laptop.

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