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Oct. 28th, 2008 01:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogOh my god.
My company launched a new intranet site at the time of our merger. Assuming our company name is X, the address was subdomain of insideX.com.
So people have been having trouble getting to the new intranet site from outside our offices. Guess what? We just found out today that my company doesn't own the domain. We apparently setup insideX.com as an internal, private domain, uncaring of the fact that insideX.com already exists as a parked domain that some holding company owns. OOPS!
Now we have to update the hosts file on each affected computer (and there are a lot of them) to point to the right address. Otherwise they try to go to our intranet home page (which, by the way, has now been set by group policy to be the unchangeable home page on every machine in our domain) and get some garbage search page for golf balls and crap.
How could you not check to see if a domain that you're going to use might be, I don't know, already owned by someone else? God, I love this company.
My company launched a new intranet site at the time of our merger. Assuming our company name is X, the address was subdomain of insideX.com.
So people have been having trouble getting to the new intranet site from outside our offices. Guess what? We just found out today that my company doesn't own the domain. We apparently setup insideX.com as an internal, private domain, uncaring of the fact that insideX.com already exists as a parked domain that some holding company owns. OOPS!
Now we have to update the hosts file on each affected computer (and there are a lot of them) to point to the right address. Otherwise they try to go to our intranet home page (which, by the way, has now been set by group policy to be the unchangeable home page on every machine in our domain) and get some garbage search page for golf balls and crap.
How could you not check to see if a domain that you're going to use might be, I don't know, already owned by someone else? God, I love this company.
