How about a config file in /etc that, by default, points to a name in the 
netbsd domain?   Then people who know what they're doing win, and people 
who don't know what they're doing _also_ win.   If our DNS is flaky enough 
that it doesn't work when the network is in bad shape, we should fix that.
    For example, we can probably get free secondary service from secondary.
com if we don't already have it, and this would provide us with DNS 
secondaries in well-protected machine rooms in several locations around the 
world.
For reference, our DNS secondaries are apparently all at DEC Palo Alto 
right now, which isn't a bad site, but certainly isn't as redundant as 
having them on secondary.com.