Intranet versus Internet

[MaxDepth]

I am pretty sure you do not have to register an intranet domain name.

Correct?

My peer says that we have to come up with our employee portal URL that we can register with register.com (the provider whom coporate wants to deal with)

I say it isn't so since our DNS server will treat it like localhost. This is a correct statement too?

 

[JackMDS]

Intranet is local, you can do what ever you want to do No need to register any thing outside.

It is a policy of most not to use the same Domain name for the Intrenet presence and Intranet.
:sun:

 

[netsysadmin]

If it is for an Intranet no you dont need to register it. Though if you have traveling employees that may need to access a employee portal while they are outside the company network you may want to setup something available on the internet. Only thing is most places setup a sub-domain for those purposes, such as employees.yourname.com

John

 

[MaxDepth]

Originally posted by: netsysadmin
If it is for an Intranet no you dont need to register it. Though if you have traveling employees that may need to access a employee portal while they are outside the company network you may want to setup something available on the internet. Only thing is most places setup a sub-domain for those purposes, such as employees.yourname.com

John

Yeah, that's my thought too. Basically an Intranet is just a LAN + browser interface. Just as long as the IP matches to the DNS, we'd be fine. As for the sales force, we currently have a VPN dial-up interface. We'll move to DSL linking sometime early next year.

I'm working for a company that has recently divested itself from a larger parent company and we are slowly weaning ourselves away from the parent network infrastructure.