This is a question that has had Network Designers in numerous meetings for months. We are trying to rollout Frame-Relay connected sites all over the US. Due to the nature of the product for which the network is being planned, each “site” will only consist of a router, small hub/switch, and no more than 5 WinNT/2K machines. Eventually there will be 20,000 or more of these sites located nationally. In seeing the number of sites, one begins to realize what a DNS nightmare this will be. What weplan on doing to start with is having separate zones and secondary DNS Servers per state. From there we plan to give a few characters to the city name, a few to the description of equipment, (Cr7513 for Cisco Router 7513), and a unique site number which is obtained when a site acquisition has taken place. My main question is for Designers with huge networks that use DNS. What hints, or what is the naming convention being used?
Of course, thank you to anyone that can shed light on this dilemma.
Nathan
