Purpose of LAN Domain?
- by Leonard Thieu
What is the purpose of creating a domain name for your LAN? I'm using DD-WRT on my router and assigned local.moofz.com as the LAN domain. I setup Apache HTTP servers on two of the computers on my LAN to test it out. I could reach them on oneil.local.moofz.com and vala.local.moofz.com, but I found out that I could also reach them via their hostnames oneil and vala.
If I can reach them through their host names, then what would be the purpose of having a domain name for my LAN?