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Re: Hostnames

#141

Post by bbx » Sun, Oct 13, 2013, 5:47 AM UTC

I recently designed several themes for a website. To simplify my naming process, I decided to find, like OP did, an already defined list of names and ended up using Paris' Métro stations [1].

Some examples:

  - Alesia
  - Concorde
  - Dupleix
  - Exelmans
  - Madeleine
  - Pyramides
  - Solferino
  - Trocadero
  - Voltaire
  - Wagram

As a bonus, you can use the Métro lines' color to visually identify your themes (or hostnames).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Paris_metro_stations

Re: Hostnames

#142

Post by chrismorgan » Sun, Oct 13, 2013, 6:11 AM UTC

  python -c "import random; print random.choice(open('/usr/share/dict/words').read().split())"

Nerd factor: really, really high.

P.S. you're still allowed to exercise the power of veto.

I've managed to convince others to let me use this technique to form a team name in a couple of Uni projects.

Re: Hostnames

#143

Post by xb95 » Sun, Oct 13, 2013, 6:17 AM UTC

gmjosack wrote: post #79

After working in a few pretty large environments I have some pretty strong opinions about hostnames. I've seen everything from cute theme based names to function/role based names to meaningless uuid based names. Usually you see the theme based names in much smaller environments, though I've seen it up to hundreds of machines. One problem I have with this approach is that people begin to personify machines, excusing t…

I saw this post and came to write a comment about "save yourself some trouble, make it random or positional and just have a functional inventory system which you'll need anyway" but hey, look, it's gmjosack beating me to it! ;)

Re: Hostnames

#144

Post by fareesh » Sun, Oct 13, 2013, 6:18 AM UTC

We use character codenames from the Metal Gear Solid universe. Ocelot, Octopus, Raven, Wolf, etc.

Re: Hostnames

#145

Post by fareesh » Sun, Oct 13, 2013, 6:18 AM UTC

We use character codenames from the Metal Gear Solid universe. Ocelot, Octopus, Raven, Wolf, etc.

Re: Hostnames

#146

Post by rcfox » Sun, Oct 13, 2013, 6:38 AM UTC

mverwijs wrote: post #81

I stepped away from naming hosts the year I learned to use Puppet. After being able to create an infrastructure based on code, the idea of naming hosts just seemed pointless.

Can you elaborate on that? My company uses Puppet, but we've configured it to determine what to set up based on the hostname of the machine. (I have no idea if that's ideal, but it's what we've got.)

Re: Hostnames

#147

Post by angelortega » Sun, Oct 13, 2013, 6:54 AM UTC

I've always used demonic names: belial, azazel, asmodeo, belcebu, astarot, kali, oni, behemoth, baal... (they are spanishized).

Re: Hostnames

#148

Post by kubov » Sun, Oct 13, 2013, 7:07 AM UTC

My habit is to name machines after Star Wars planets /characters. But despite fact that I already have a established pattern it's often struggle to come up with a name.

Re: Hostnames

#149

Post by kubov » Sun, Oct 13, 2013, 7:07 AM UTC

My habit is to name machines after Star Wars planets /characters. But despite fact that I already have a established pattern it's often struggle to come up with a name.

Re: Hostnames

#150

Post by chandraonline » Sun, Oct 13, 2013, 7:17 AM UTC

I use the house names of westeros (game of thrones) for all my hostnames in my home network. Its a lot more fun mounting a drive from winterfell or streaming movies from kingslanding.