not sure on the hierarchy, for this particular subnet that is just interior routing infrastructure in the network VL01GE04RT01CBN0.inf.domain because its routing, the subdomain is on an interior only set of name servers not on the public domain servers since its rfc1918 space, is that what you mean about hierarchy? The only non administrative readers will be looking at the last four characters to know a path, I did the 4 characters because ive been burned so many times on dashes and underscores, pretty much every delimiter by some software or another that cant handle it correctly
On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 12:58 PM, Eric Kuhnke <[email protected]> wrote: > Properly done DNS systems can deal with much longer hostnames than that, > but from a human readability and usability perspective, I would use hyphens > to separate things a bit. And do it hierarchically rather than one flat > hostname.domain. > > Look at the reverse DNS entries for the 1, 10, 40 and 100Gb interfaces on > major ISP backbone routers in a traceroute for examples. > > > > On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 10:49 AM, That One Guy /sarcasm < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> beating this horse again. >> Is there any component of DNS that would be problematic with a 16 >> character name? >> >> Im going with VLAN ID, Port type and number, Device type and number, >> location >> all are 4 characters >> >> VL01GE04RT01CBN0.domain >> >> This is >> VLAN ID 1 default (will remove letters if VLAN goes beyond 99 or 999) >> Gigabit Ethernet >> Port number 1 >> Router 1 >> at CBN >> >> it just looks really long and cumbersome and im afraid one day some >> standard im unaware of will hammer me, like a proper ICANN API instruction >> for some newly required function will kill everyone in the room with lazes >> if the entry exceeds 9 characters >> >> -- >> If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team >> as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team. >> > > -- If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team.
