nah, this is a good idea. THEN create CNAMES that are actually short and memorable for the end users. I find about 3-4 character names for servers is about all a typical end user can deal with. If you're going with multiple subdomains just make sure the local domain is first in the search order, and do a whole lot of replication. CNAMES are your friend (except in MX records of course. Nobody cares what kind of server you have, or where it is, as long as it's up....
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nah, this is a good idea. THEN create CNAMES that are actually short and memorable for the end users. I find about 3-4 character names for servers is about all a typical end user can deal with. If you're going with multiple subdomains just make sure the local domain is first in the search order, and do a whole lot of replication. CNAMES are your friend (except in MX records of course. Nobody cares what kind of server you have, or where it is, as long as it's up....