dnsmasq is a useful tool for small networks. It can provide DNS, DHCP, TFTP, and PXE services. This ansible role setup dnsmasq to provide DNS and DHCP services.
It's confusing.
RFC 6762 Multicast DNS uses .local as TLD.
Quoting from this RFC:
we recommend against using ".local" as a private Unicast DNS top-level domain. We do not recommend use of unregistered top-level domains at all, but should network operators decide to do this, the following top-level domains have been used on private internal networks without the problems caused by trying to reuse ".local." for this purpose:
.intranet. .internal. .private. .corp. .home. .lan.
So .local domain name is used for network without DNS infrastructure.
RFC 7788 Home Networking Control Protocol written in 2016,
recommended using .home as home network TLD.
But 2018 written RFC 8375 Special-Use Domain 'home.arpa.'
corrected this "mistake" because .home and .corp TLD can easily leak to external DNS name servers.
So those names will not become public registered TLDs.
I use .home as TLD for my home network and config dnsmasq to not forward
.home queries to external DNS servers.