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Re: Hostnames

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Post by nwh » Sun, Oct 13, 2013, 2:40 AM UTC

Cakez0r wrote: post #125

jstsch wrote: post #53

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

This is my favorite one. For extra awesome, you can use the atomic mass of each element as the last octet of the device's IP address.

That's bloody adorable.

Re: Hostnames

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Post by morazow » Sun, Oct 13, 2013, 2:51 AM UTC

I have used names from fantasy books. Shire, Mordor, North, Dorne, Vale ..

Re: Hostnames

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Post by nine_k » Sun, Oct 13, 2013, 3:00 AM UTC

Quoting from memory:

«We used to treat our physical machines as home pets, having few of them, giving them proper names, caring about them individually.

Now we treat virtual machines as cattle on a large farm, marking them with numbers, denying them any individuality, and killing them when we don't need them any more.»

Re: Hostnames

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Post by GrinningFool » Sun, Oct 13, 2013, 3:41 AM UTC

oftenwrong wrote: post #84

lclarkmichalek wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any Category: page on Wikipedia is great. I've been using http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:German_foresters for a while now.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Categories

These names, of course, could only be used for VM hosts.

Re: Hostnames

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Post by andrewflnr » Sun, Oct 13, 2013, 3:44 AM UTC

Cakez0r wrote: post #125

jstsch wrote: post #53

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

This is my favorite one. For extra awesome, you can use the atomic mass of each element as the last octet of the device's IP address.

Cute and memorable (for me anyway) without overly personifying them. Perfect.

Re: Hostnames

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Post by akandiah » Sun, Oct 13, 2013, 3:46 AM UTC

I personally use elements of the periodic table.

Re: Hostnames

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Post by leif » Sun, Oct 13, 2013, 3:50 AM UTC

Characters from Firefly, for my home network. All short and memorable.

Re: Hostnames

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Post by olefoo » Sun, Oct 13, 2013, 5:17 AM UTC

eh. I had that at a previous employer. I used volcano names because there's a fair number of them and they sometimes explode. ( the graphite server was called seismograph... ).

Re: Hostnames

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Post by juliajuli45 » Sun, Oct 13, 2013, 5:25 AM UTC

my classmate's half-sister makes $72 every hour on the internet. She has been without a job for eight months but last month her payment was $16159 just working on the internet for a few hours.Here's the site to read more......

------------------->http://www.works23.com

Re: Hostnames

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Post by seandougall » Sun, Oct 13, 2013, 5:46 AM UTC

I don't typically manage hostnames, but I use planets from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy for removable drives.

Unrelated: if you use the time measurement list for hostnames, or anything else that other people have to type, please for the love of God spell "millennium" correctly.