Matthew Poole wrote: [..]
The only way to deal with that kind of attitude would appear to be a formal proposal (there are other issues in our DNS that need to be tidied up, so it's not just a proposal for this one thing), and I want to include some industry references about best practice in zone structuring.
Very simple, from RFC1034 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1034.txt) 8<------------------------------------------------------------------ The result was several ideas about name spaces and their management [IEN-116, RFC-799, RFC-819, RFC-830]. The proposals varied, but a common thread was the idea of a hierarchical name space, with the hierarchy roughly corresponding to organizational structure, and names using "." as the character to mark the boundary between hierarchy levels. ------------------------------------------------------------------>8 And that is all there is to it. Having a 'couple of thousand' hosts in a domain doesn't really matter, that is personal preference if the admin likes it or not, but you can make a case about hierarchy. eg using 'hostname.room.bld.dept.org.tld', though you can also use 'host-room-bld.dept.org.tld'. Thus as with the latter example, you could still resolve this by simply using '-' as a separator instead, happy you, happy them ;) Greets, Jeroen