[SWLUG] selecting a DNS domain

Dick Porter dick at acm.org
Fri May 2 11:23:58 UTC 2003


On Fri, 2003-05-02 at 10:28, Justin Mitchell wrote:
> > I know I need to use a domain that WONT conflict with the outside world, but
> > everything I come up with a) looks unbelievable (e.g. home.bogus) or b) is
> > excessively long (e.g. server1.internal.mydomain.co.uk)
> Dont use such a long name then, if you own mydomain, then create records
> (either out in the real domain, or just privately inside your network)
> that are reasonably short,   mylaptop.mydomain.com   or whatever.
> Your safe that they wont clash.

Or use example.com

- Dick






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