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School of Medicine Domain Name Service (DNS) Policy

In order to provide consistent standards for DNS address translations within the School of Medicine and among all of its departments, divisions, offices, and programs, the Office of Information Technology and Services proposes the following:

1. med.emory.edu shall become the official subnet for all School of Medicine entities.
   
   
2. Machine lookups within this domain shall be requested from SOM-ITS and upon approval, will be forwarded to NCD. NCD shall be instructed to remand any DNS requests from School of Medicine users to SOM-ITS for approval before proceeding.
   
   
3. School of Medicine entities with specific needs such as departmental email or web server lookups can be granted domain lookups, i.e. program.med.emory.edu. Email addresses for this domain would be user@program.med.emory.edu. This should be the standard, effective immediately, for all new DNS requests. Those currently in effect should gradually be migrated to this standard, though no timeframe is suggested.

   Note that ITS taking the lead in allocating DNS lookups for the School of Medicine does not imply support of services such as departmental email or web servers. NCD will continue to support the DNS server hardware and configuration, while departmental users will be responsible for their own servers.

4. http://med.emory.edu (and http://www.med.emory.edu) is currently set to alias the existing School of Medicine website and shall be the official URL noted in publications for accessing the School of Medicine website.
   
   
5. Departmental websites should, with the assistance of SOM-ITS, migrate to directories under this root URL (http://med.emory.edu).