

Internal use or not, DNS absolutely needs to be correct, and DNS works because nobody tries squatting in random domains.

dev top-level domain is a live domain via the Charleston Road Registry, and - unless you've registered it - then it's likely that the domain web.dev may or will soon be registered by somebody else. Things get wonky when that's configured in a DNS server. local domain is reserved for mDNS / Bonjour and not for use as a server DNS host name. dev, and particularly as there are several thousand top-level domains online or arriving - or use a real and registered domain, or a subdomain of a domain you have registered, or have permission to use. Here is information and some background on how to configure DNS services on OS X Server.Įither set up either a bogus top-level domain - that's getting increasingly difficult as you'll find with.
