monero-site/_i18n/en/resources/moneropedia/locally-unique-host.md

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terms: ["Locally-unique-host"]
summary: "A host defined by you and resolved only by you"
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### The Basics

A locally-unique host is a [FQDN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FQDN) defined by **you** and resolved only by you; similar to how a [hosts file](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_(file)) is implemented. Not to be confused with @canonically-unique-host.

### In-depth information

You have the option to share your interpretation of how the host is resolved (e.g., `localhost` always resolves to `127.0.0.1`) but the resolution is not canonically enforced (e.g., someone else can map `localhost` to any arbitrary IP address).

Hosts in a public subscription can be considered @canonically-unique-host's within the I2P network but, ultimately, you are free to re-define them as you wish.

### Notes

- Monero primarily uses @canonically-unique-host resolution while I2P only uses @locally-unique-host resolution.

- I2P's and @Kovri's assigned top-level domain is currently `.i2p` and @Kovri intends to only process/use the `.i2p` [top-level domain](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_level_domain)
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			`terms: ["Locally-unique-host"]`
			`summary: "A host defined by you and resolved only by you"`
			`---`

Moneropedia: Add 'untranslated' snippet to all English entries So that when creating a new language the snippet will be copied over as well 2020-10-04 13:04:28 +00:00			`{% include disclaimer.html translated="no" translationOutdated="no" %}`
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Enabled all site except user guides to be multilingual ready - Moved technical specs out of 'Resources' and into root 2017-12-05 19:43:20 +00:00			`### The Basics`

Update wikipedia link for etc/hosts to `https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_(file)` 2018-07-31 07:39:27 +00:00			`A locally-unique host is a [FQDN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FQDN) defined by you and resolved only by you; similar to how a [hosts file](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_(file)) is implemented. Not to be confused with @canonically-unique-host.`
Enabled all site except user guides to be multilingual ready - Moved technical specs out of 'Resources' and into root 2017-12-05 19:43:20 +00:00
			`### In-depth information`

			You have the option to share your interpretation of how the host is resolved (e.g., `localhost` always resolves to `127.0.0.1`) but the resolution is not canonically enforced (e.g., someone else can map `localhost` to any arbitrary IP address).

Remove links to deleted Moneropedia entries from other resources 2020-10-02 16:29:23 +00:00			`Hosts in a public subscription can be considered @canonically-unique-host's within the I2P network but, ultimately, you are free to re-define them as you wish.`
Enabled all site except user guides to be multilingual ready - Moved technical specs out of 'Resources' and into root 2017-12-05 19:43:20 +00:00
			`### Notes`

Remove links to deleted Moneropedia entries from other resources 2020-10-02 16:29:23 +00:00			`- Monero primarily uses @canonically-unique-host resolution while I2P only uses @locally-unique-host resolution.`
moneropedia: moneropedia: uniform structure of locally-unique-host.md and add config file 2021-09-24 08:34:21 +00:00
Remove links to deleted Moneropedia entries from other resources 2020-10-02 16:29:23 +00:00			- I2P's and @Kovri's assigned top-level domain is currently `.i2p` and @Kovri intends to only process/use the `.i2p` [top-level domain](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_level_domain)