Advice on Internal Domain Names

[Kevin Darcy]

Mark Taylor wrote:

> Hi
>
> I want some advice on how to name my internal domains.  We have a registered
> Domain Name (foo.co.uk for this example), and I need to break it down for my
> internal branches.
>
> The plan is to do a follows:
>
> Internet
>       |
> foo.co.uk
>       |
> Firewall
>       |
> intranet.foo.co.uk
>       |
> branch1.intranet.foo.co.uk ... branch50.intranet.foo.co.uk
>
> This will put all our internet servers on "visible" foo.co.uk.  Everything
> on our intranet will be "non-visible" intranet.foo.co.uk.
>
> Is this the recommend approach to naming internal domains ?

If you can get away with this, do it! It'll make your life much easier in the
long run. Don't be surprised, though, if your users start complaining about
"all that typing" and force you to put all of those branch subdomains directly
under foo.co.uk....


- Kevin