[Server-devel] [XSCE] Fwd: [support-gang] XO tablet can not connect to XSCE server

Tim Moody tim at timmoody.com
Sun Nov 10 11:21:34 EST 2013


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>On 11/09/2013 04:53 PM, Samuel Greenfeld wrote:
>> 2. https://github.com/XSCE/xsce/blob/master/vars/default_vars.yml
>> seems to imply that the default domain suffix is ".local"
>>
>> That is a definite potential bug.  While ".local" is reserved for
>> local use, multicast DNS clients effectively have taken over this
>> domain to the point that older networks which have .local DNS
>> entries have run into a lot of problems.
>>
Did some reading and you have made a believer out of me.
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>Use of "schoolserver.lan" would avoid these problems.
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.lan is a candidate, also .internal.  I have seen .localdomain.

Can anyone point to a 'best practices'? 



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