The character count. lan is 3 char, home.arpa is 9. Subjectively, tt is also aesthetically unappealing.
I can't fucking _wait_ to type bender.home.arpa instead of bender.lan. Hyped.
I can't fucking _wait_ to type bender.home.arpa instead of bender.lan. Hyped.
Search domain is handy but it's ambiguous.
I don't know what this means, and searching is thorny. Help?
Your DHCP/SLAAC RA tells clients "here is a list of search domains, when you attempt to query a bare name, also look for the name plus any suffixes listed in the search domain list". So on a system with "home.arpa" in the search domains, you can do something like 'ping myhost' and your system should attempt to resolve 'myhost.home.arpa'.