<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">Hi guys,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">are there any best practices about subdomains in terms of zones and record-set configuration?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">At the moment I can image only 2 viable configuration:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">- subdomain/zone pairs for each subdomain and record-set for hostname in subdomain zone</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">- root zone only and record-sets containing subdomain for each host</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">For example:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">- tld: good.beer.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">- subdomains: a.lot.of.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">- host FQDN: drink.a.lot.of.good.beer.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">Case 1:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">- good.beer zone is created</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">- of.good.beer zone is created</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">- lot.of.good.beer zone is created<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">- a.lot.of.good.beer zone is created<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">- record-sets for hosts are created in "a.lot.of.good.beer" zone and their form is "drink"</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">Case 2:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">- good.beer zone is created<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">- record-sets for hosts are created in good.beer and their form is  "drink.a.lot.of"</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">Thanks for your advices!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">PS: Drink Responsibly</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><pre style="font-family:"Courier New",Courier,monospace,arial,sans-serif;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:14px"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";width:420px"><tbody><tr valign="top"><td><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr valign="top"><td style="text-align:initial;vertical-align:top;padding:0px 8px"><a href="http://www.certego.net/" target="_blank"><img width="96" height="96" src="http://www.certego.net/email/certego.png" alt="" style="border-radius:0px"></a></td><td style="text-align:initial;vertical-align:top;padding:4px 0px"><div style="padding-top:2px;color:rgb(0,172,237);font-weight:bold;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:sans-serif;letter-spacing:1px">Giovanni Vecchi</div><div style="padding-top:2px;color:rgb(32,32,32);font-weight:bold;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:sans-serif">Infrastructure Lead Engineer, Certego</div><div style="padding-top:4px"><a href="tel:+39-059-7353333" style="color:rgb(84,84,84);font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:sans-serif" target="_blank">+39-059-7353333</a><span style="color:rgb(0,172,237);font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:sans-serif"></span></div><div style="padding-top:6px"><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/company/certego" target="_blank"><img width="24" height="24" src="http://www.certego.net/email/linkedin.png" style="border-radius:0px;border:0px;width:24px;min-height:24px"></a> <a href="http://twitter.com/Certego_IRT" target="_blank"><img width="24" height="24" src="http://www.certego.net/email/twitter.png" style="border-radius:0px;border:0px;width:24px;min-height:24px"></a> <a href="http://github.com/certego" target="_blank"><img width="24" height="24" src="http://www.certego.net/email/github.png" style="border-radius:0px;border:0px;width:24px;min-height:24px"></a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/CERTEGOsrl" target="_blank"><img width="24" height="24" src="http://www.certego.net/email/youtube.png" style="border-radius:0px;border:0px;width:24px;mi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