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Note 2026-09-02T13:07:34.000-07:00


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Scott Kingery
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TIL about ".home.arpa" top-level domain (RFC 8375) for you home LAN domain. I never bothered setting up a domain on my home router. Giving this a try to help name resolution. There are arguments for using a real domain that you've purchased doing something like .lan.myrealdomainname.com so the you don't have to worry about certs and browsing just "works" but I'll give this a try first just to test the waters. FAFO as they say.

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  • Andrew on 🐘 : @techlifeweb I did this for a while but got nervous about clients leaking data on other networks, e.g. sessions or saved passwords sent to someone else’s server at the same name. Ended up putting home web services under a cheap public domain with 10y registration, HSTS, wildcard Let’s Encrypt and no public DNS records.
  • Snuggle2476 on 🐘 : @techlifeweb I have used homelab.arpa for a while and I'm very happy with it. I set that domain in my pfSense router and even have a small website at the main homelab.arpa that links to all my services. I have others like photos.homelab.arpa, pfsense.homelab.arpa and grafana.homelab.arpa. Much easier to remember than an IP address and port!
  • Scott Kingery on 🐘 : @Snuggle2476 Thanks. So far, so good. I like the idea of a little web server with links to all the services. I'll have to set that up next.