[thelist] creating a subdomain for a website (win2k)

[Chris W. Parker]

hi.

i would really like to create a subdomain of our live site so that i can
mess it up as much as i want to without affecting our customers. as some
of you know, it's very tedious having to work on a live site when making
important changes.

right now we've got, www.domain.com and i'd like test.domain.com or
dev.domain.com or something like that. (maybe even requiring
authentication for security purposes. now that i'm thinking about it,
this doesn't even need to be accessible from the outside since bossman
says i can't work on the site except if i'm in the office. so it really
only needs to be an internal thing).

anyways, i've searched http://www.google.com/ and
http://groups.google.com/ with no luck on this.

some more information:

i don't know much about DNS (hence me having this question), but i know
we have our own DNS server which is used for internal DNS only. and i
assume this means that our ISP hosts the external DNS info. i.e.
www.domain.com. we use win2000 so of course we have iis5. and we also
use active directory. ummm... i can't think of anything else that is
important. let me know if i should have included something.


thanks for the help!
chris.