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2. .local - Wikipedia

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   This name is usually configured with the first-level domain of .local. At the present time, the .local domain name is not registered on the Internet. However, more recent articles have cautioned or advised against such use of the .local TLD. Support article 300684 [6] listed contoso.local as an example of a "best-practice Active Directory ...

3. .localhost - Wikipedia

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   The name localhost is a commonly defined hostname for the loopback interface in most TCP/IP systems, resolving to the IP addresses 127.0.0.1 in IPv4 and ::1 for IPv6.As a top-level domain, the name has traditionally been defined statically in host DNS implementations with address records (A and AAAA) pointing to the same loopback addresses.

4. .test - Wikipedia

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   In June 1999, the Internet Engineering Task Force reserved the DNS labels .example, .invalid, .localhost, and .test so that they may not be installed into the root zone of the Domain Name System. [1] These top-level domain names were reserved to reduce the likelihood of conflict and confusion. [2] This allows their usage for either ...

5. Domain name - Wikipedia

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   An annotated example of a domain name. In the Internet, a domain name is a string that identifies a realm of administrative autonomy, authority or control. Domain names are often used to identify services provided through the Internet, such as websites, email services and more. Domain names are used in various networking contexts and for ...

6. localhost - Wikipedia

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   The mapping of localhost to addresses other than the designated loopback address range in the hosts file or in DNS is not guaranteed to have the desired effect, as applications may map the name internally. In the Domain Name System, the name .localhost is reserved as a top-level domain name, originally set aside to avoid confusion with the ...

7. Domain Name System - Wikipedia

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   Domain name resolvers determine the domain name servers responsible for the domain name in question by a sequence of queries starting with the right-most (top-level) domain label. A DNS resolver that implements the iterative approach mandated by RFC 1034; in this case, the resolver consults three name servers to resolve the fully qualified ...