Newbie Question: Is DNS beneficial in a private network?

[Michael Voight]

You can set up your own root zone server on your intranet.

Michael

Jim Durkin wrote:
> 
> Hello.
> 
> This is a basic question.   In my company, we have a private network
> consisting of routers and voice over ip gateways.  Since we do not want
> anyone to access our devices, does it make sense to setup a DNS server???
> My understanding is that a DNS server must be registered with the Internic.
> Besides providing name to IP translation for our 20 or so devices, is there
> any other benefits?   Any comments would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jim