What is security.local?

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I had a question from one of my networking classes and was just wondering what it meant.

When you use the command:

ping HOST.security.local

what exactly are you pinging? What is security.local?

I also was wondering WHAT happens when you ping this?

If anyone could answer that for my I would much appreciate it!

Thanks!
 
$5 says .local is a private domain, and security.local is a nested domain located within this private domain.

Often situations that call for a private domain or separate internal and external DNS systems will be set up with the internal domain called .local, so that it isn't available on the internet. I personally use a 3-letter acronym for my company whenever I create a private domain, like test.esc, which won't resolve on the internet.
 
Awesome, thanks guys. I looked all over the place for the answer to that question! I know it had to do something with domains though!

In the case of my question, so if I ping it it will only test connectivity between computers only strictly inside the domain?

Some more thing, by nested do you mean that there is a user group named security which is part of the local domain?
 
DaRkF0g said:
Awesome, thanks guys. I looked all over the place for the answer to that question! I know it had to do something with domains though!

In the case of my question, so if I ping it it will only test connectivity between computers only strictly inside the domain?

Some more thing, by nested do you mean that there is a user group named security which is part of the local domain?
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Actually, it was a mistake on my behalf. I was thinking too much.

In your instance, .local would replace what otherwise would be .com or .net
security replaces what would be hardforum or hardocp
and host is a host on the network.

The nest domain would be if there was a domain within the security domain. For example, you could create a domain called wireless within the security domain, and your host would be host.wireless.security.local
 
Great, thanks Vette. I completely understand what you mean! Great job in explaining what was meant by my question!

I am still wondering, that if you ping it will it only test connectivity inside the domain (ie. you are not concerned with internet connectivity just connectivity to the domain)?
 
DaRkF0g said:
Great, thanks Vette. I completely understand what you mean! Great job in explaining what was meant by my question!

I am still wondering, that if you ping it will it only test connectivity inside the domain (ie. you are not concerned with internet connectivity just connectivity to the domain)?
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Right...you're pinging a local resource...most likely the domain controller..or some other resource on the network.
 
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