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Re: Hostnames

#51

Post by bluedino » Sat, Oct 12, 2013, 9:39 PM UTC

Someone decided to name ours based on specs. DUAL2800, DUAL3000...

Re: Hostnames

#52

Post by peterbmarks » Sat, Oct 12, 2013, 9:40 PM UTC

Planets mentioned in Star Wars is a good source (if you include books) although some can be hard to spell.

Re: Hostnames

#53

Post by jstsch » Sat, Oct 12, 2013, 9:41 PM UTC

Periodic table: hydrogen, helium, lithium, beryllium, boron, carbon... and shorthands... h.yourcompany.net, etc... :)

Re: Hostnames

#54

Post by IgorPartola » Sat, Oct 12, 2013, 9:42 PM UTC

I like Harry Potter characters. There are lots of names in those books and the lists are readily available. Lots of them are unambiguous in English which is nice.

Re: Hostnames

#55

Post by shocks » Sat, Oct 12, 2013, 9:43 PM UTC

I use elements. Machine with IP 192.168.1.x gets the element with atomic number x as it's hostname. :)

http://computernamer.com is good too.

Routers are named after species of penguin!

Re: Hostnames

#56

Post by Fomite » Sat, Oct 12, 2013, 9:43 PM UTC

Brajeshwar wrote: post #25

Lord of the Rings?

Where I work, the number of tickets filed about the speed of 'Shadowfax' always makes me chuckle.

Re: Hostnames

#57

Post by clarkm » Sat, Oct 12, 2013, 9:44 PM UTC

spindritf wrote: post #3

There's an RFC on that, too. "Choosing a name for your computer" http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1178 Shades of colours, for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Shades_of_blue , are a good, safe source of names.

I've never thought of using colors before, but I like it. It's a whole new type of "color coding".

Re: Hostnames

#58

Post by shocks » Sat, Oct 12, 2013, 9:45 PM UTC

TheLoneWolfling wrote: post #34

I've been using elements myself for my home network. (With one pseudo-exception: my first laptop was protium, my previous deuterium, my current tritium. Next one will probably be hydrogen.)

Nice! I use elements but I pick the element based on IP address and atomic number.

So 192.168.1.30 is zinc. :)

Re: Hostnames

#59

Post by brryant » Sat, Oct 12, 2013, 9:45 PM UTC

This is ridiculously unnecessary, and very confusing for new team members and devops. Hostnames should be descriptive and help describe the machine's location and responsibility in the network topology. Like webserver01a (nginx, first machine in LB, us-east1a).

Sure it's not cutesy as "pikachu" or "bobasaur", but it will sure make your nagios/copperegg dashboard make lot more sense. And when shit hits the fan you won't think your servers are cute, despite their clever names.

Re: Hostnames

#60

Post by coolnow » Sat, Oct 12, 2013, 9:46 PM UTC

My personal machines (including phone, tablet etc) used to be called Snake, Zero, Ocelot, Boss.

Guess which is my favourite game series.