Hello,
I see many suggesting a role+characteristics based naming scheme (and some warning against it, citing targeting of hacking attempts).
Then I see this: https://mnx.io/blog/a-proper-server-naming-scheme/ suggesting that the actual hardware/vm should be replaceable easily, and that mapping any service directly to a hostname is detremeintal to that, instead use CNAMES to map needed services to swappable hostnames. I agree, and want to implement it where I can.
But with AD, I’m a little concerened with that plan. When I check places on our old AD and it appears the actual hostname of the domain controller is used in many places in the forest settings, and even on domain joined clients. Is this all something you can CNAME?
Can you run a windows domain based on aliases?