{"id":2214,"date":"2023-04-09T21:46:12","date_gmt":"2023-04-09T16:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/community.windowstechno.com\/community\/question\/naming-conventions-of-ad-servers-go-explicit-or-cname\/"},"modified":"2023-04-09T21:46:12","modified_gmt":"2023-04-09T16:16:12","slug":"naming-conventions-of-ad-servers-go-explicit-or-cname","status":"publish","type":"question","link":"https:\/\/community.windowstechno.com\/community\/question\/naming-conventions-of-ad-servers-go-explicit-or-cname\/","title":{"rendered":"Naming Conventions of AD servers, go explicit, or CNAME?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello,<\/p>\n<p>I see many suggesting a role+characteristics based naming scheme (and some warning against it, citing targeting of hacking attempts).<\/p>\n<p>Then I see this:\u00a0<a class=\"_3t5uN8xUmg0TOwRCOGQEcU\" href=\"https:\/\/mnx.io\/blog\/a-proper-server-naming-scheme\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/mnx.io\/blog\/a-proper-server-naming-scheme\/<\/a>\u00a0suggesting 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.<\/p>\n<p>But with AD, I&#8217;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?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Can you run a windows domain based on aliases?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","question-category":[12],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-2214","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-active-directory"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Naming Conventions of AD servers, go explicit, or CNAME? - WindowsTechno Community<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/community.windowstechno.com\/community\/question\/naming-conventions-of-ad-servers-go-explicit-or-cname\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Naming Conventions of AD servers, go explicit, or CNAME? - WindowsTechno Community\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hello, I see many suggesting a role+characteristics based naming scheme (and some warning against it, citing targeting of hacking attempts). 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