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My company's internal domain name is structured like this:<br />
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internal.company.com<br />
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The company's website, which is hosted by a third party, is structured like this:<br />
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company.com<br />
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This generates a bunch of port 137 Netbios and 445 Microsoft DS traffic from the workstations to the third party website host (mail is also hosted externally). I don't see where performance is being harmed, but I block that traffic at the firewall for security reasons and because it is useless. I think if the mail and website were ever hosted internally, the current naming structure would make sense, but should the internal domain name be named something different as a best practice in our current scenario? I know it would stop the 137/445 traffic to the webhost anyway!<br />
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Thanks
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My company's internal domain name is structured like this:

internal.company.com

The company's website, which is hosted by a third party, is structured like this:

company.com

This generates a bunch of port 137 Netbios and 445 Microsoft DS traffic from the workstations to the third party website host (mail is also hosted externally). I don't see where performance is being harmed, but I block that traffic at the firewall for security reasons and because it is useless. I think if the mail and website were ever hosted internally, the current naming structure would make sense, but should the internal domain name be named something different as a best practice in our current scenario? I know it would stop the 137/445 traffic to the webhost anyway!

Thanks

Should my company's internal domain be renamed?

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