Best DNS Naming Scheme For Small/Medium Businesses?

Posted by timothy on Sunday July 6, 2008 @08:34AM from the elephant01-elephant02-elephant03 dept.

Bandman writes "My business just purchased a couple dozen blades, and with our existing servers, this brings us to around 60 machines. We're geographically dispersed, and most of the users who need to connect to servers are not technical (if that matters). We used to use theme-based naming schemes, but we've been migrating to a more utilitarian system. I think it's clearer and more concise, but I've had some feedback from users who didn't find it understandable. What do you use for your internal DNS schemes? How big is your network, and what do you recommend for future expansion? Does it matter to your users at all?"

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RFC1178 by fmwap · 2008-07-06 08:52 · Score: 5, Informative

There's a whole RFC on this:
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1178.html

Interesting read...it specifically says:
'Don't choose a name after a project unique to that machine.'

I agree with the reasoning, but on large scale DNS deployments, I can also see this being a nightmare... I just use arbitrary names, nothing too hard to spell.