short name resolution

[Kevin Darcy]

Short names are evil. Use FQDNs for everything. The sooner you make this
"culture change" and re-form people's habits, the better off you'll be. Trust
me on this. The longer you leave it, the worse it will get, and the harder it
will be to change. About 8 or 9 years ago I started weaning our IT-supported
customers off short names, and the process is nearing completion. Meanwhile, in
the Engineering realm, we're only just now starting to talk about phasing out
short names. That might take a decade or so...


- Kevin

Brian Noecker wrote:

> With multiple subdomains a.foo.com, b.foo.com, c.foo.com,
> d.foo.com....z.foo.com, resolvers need to have search list in order to
> specify which zones to look through to find specific names via their short
> name "bob".
>
> Is there a better way internally to allow users, especially those in support
> roles who access computers in all domains, to find resources by their short
> names w/o use search lists?  Co-workers have said in pervious jobs they've
> been able to go w/o using search lists but I can't see how this is possible
> without introducing high latency while searching through all the zones
> a-z.foo.com.