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Summary

Domains refer to Internet domains such as stanford.edu, yahoo.com.  

Associated Fields:

Name - Domain names must obey Internet naming conventions: only alphanumeric characters and hyphens are allowed. No leading digits or hyphens. No trailing hyphens. Note that once a domain has been created, the domain name cannot be modified except to change case.

Allow Names - If "yes", a Node can have the same name as a subdomain. For instance, cs.stanford.edu could be both a Node and a subdomain. If "no", if the subdomain "cs.stanford.edu" already existed, the Node "cs.stanford.edu" would not be allowed. By default, this is "no".

Limited - If "yes", this Domain can only contain names from a short list. This list includes names like "www" and "ftp".

Group - This Admin Team can only be modified by Users with rights to this Group and rights to Admin Team objects.

Comment - Useful information can be added here. This field is searchable with Full Search.

Special Domains

.sunet - Names in the .sunet domain are only resolved for Stanford hosts. Useful for hosts on private address spaces which are not reachable from the Internet.

.NoDomain - Names in the .NoDomain domain are never resolved by DNS servers. Used as placeholders.
 
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