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by CydeWeys 3123 days ago
My colleague has written a draft RFC for this very use case, in fact: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-wkumari-dnsop-interna...

It's still very much in the early stages though.

Even then, though, you can end up with all sorts of problems during mergers/acquisitions when previously separate intranets end up getting joined, exposing naming conflicts. Ultimately you always need to use a globally unique namespace, so either use a real domain name (guaranteed unique) or do something unique on top of .internal, e.g. .yourcompanyname.internal (still not guaranteed unique, but better).

See also: https://jdebp.eu/FGA/dns-use-domain-names-that-you-own.html