Naming standard for additional A records/IP addresses for IIS servers?

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Published on 2009-12-16T19:37:51Z Indexed on 2010/06/13 22:03 UTC
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When you're adding another IP address to and IIS server, what naming standards do you use for the A records?

Background: I've a bunch of sites on an IIS server which use (CNAME'd) host-headers and a single IP address. Server names (and A records) adhere to unfriendly (as in difficult-to-remember) naming standards whereas CNAMEs, and therefore host-headers, can be friendly. Now I've a need for several SSL certificates for different sites. I was thinking about using an additional IP address for each to-be-SSL'd site but still using friendly CNAMEs. So then I come to what to call the A record.

What do you do?

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