8 Hints For Using DNS More Effectively
“We can solve any problem by introducing an extra level of indirection.” – Butler Lampson 1. DNS is a hierarchy. Use it to show logical groupings. Fully-qualified domain names (FQDNs) like pussinbootsthemovie.com are great examples of what happens when you don’t take advantage of the hierarchy in DNS. Wouldn’t pussinboots.dreamworks.com be just as easy? Or, frankly, just avoid the issue and do what Disney does: http://disney.com/cars/. What if all your company’s desktops were in .desktop.company.com? Would that help assign permissions to them? Or your engineering group had all their stuff in .eng.company.com? Test hosts in .test.company.com? Would having all your services at your DR site in .dr.company.com help to manage, monitor, and use them? I’m not saying that any of …