Basic intranet setup

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 03:15:42PM -0700,
 Chris Buxton <cbuxton at menandmice.com> wrote 
 a message of 36 lines which said:

> with names like "wiki.privatedomain.lan",
> "issues.privatedomain.lan", etc.

I thought it was widely regarded as "bad practice" to have a dummy TLD
(like ".lan" in your example). Because, if either:

* ICANN creates a TLD with the same name, or,

* you buy or merge with another organization which does the same (they
can, there are no reserved TLD for local use),

it will be quite hard to go to every machine and change the value!

It seems that the recommended practice is to create a subdomain of
your real domain like local.menandmice.com?