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Re: Hostnames

#31

Post by mbrameld » Sat, Oct 12, 2013, 9:10 PM UTC

I use characters from Stephen King's Dark Tower series. Roland, Eddie, Jake, Oy, Susannah, Cuthbert, Alain, etc.

Re: Hostnames

#32

Post by ScotterC » Sat, Oct 12, 2013, 9:11 PM UTC

I remember recognizing at CMU that the many of the computers were named after Phish songs. Always enjoyed working at 'weekapaug'

Re: Hostnames

#33

Post by Theodores » Sat, Oct 12, 2013, 9:13 PM UTC

lost-theory wrote: post #26

Cute server naming schemes are one of my pet peeves. In my experience the only two logical choices are: sequential numbers (e.g. foo1, ..., foo100, ... if your company name is Foo Corp.), or hashes / uuids (like amazon instance IDs, e.g. i-977a24e3). If you want to give a server a memorable or cute name, use DNS or some kind of alias.

Read the aforementioned RFC - with sequential numbers you are not naming them. I can imagine how thrilled your colleagues are if they have to ssh into i-977 what was the rest of it?

Re: Hostnames

#34

Post by TheLoneWolfling » Sat, Oct 12, 2013, 9:13 PM UTC

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.)

Re: Hostnames

#35

Post by mbesto » Sat, Oct 12, 2013, 9:14 PM UTC

Famous cyclists names here! Gilbert, ulrich, and armstrong (we replaced armstrong recently)

Re: Hostnames

#36

Post by whalesalad » Sat, Oct 12, 2013, 9:17 PM UTC

nostromo wrote: post #24

We use Pokemon. There's something super memorable about Blastoise, Slowbro, Squirtle, Ninetales, Jigglypuff... I also color my tabs the color of the Pokemon for fast reference.

This is freaking brilliant. I grew up with that game and never even considered using them for hostnames.

Re: Hostnames

#37

Post by eCa » Sat, Oct 12, 2013, 9:18 PM UTC

I use European mountain passes, like Stelvio [1] or Veleta [2].. I don't have many servers.

At work though it's all business; purpose, environment, number, etc.

[1] http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=passo%20stelvio

[2] http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=pico%20veleta

Re: Hostnames

#38

Post by whalesalad » Sat, Oct 12, 2013, 9:19 PM UTC

mbesto wrote: post #35

Famous cyclists names here! Gilbert, ulrich, and armstrong (we replaced armstrong recently)

That's unfortunate. Despite the way that Armstrong situation went down there's no doubt he's still an excellent cyclist and athlete.

Re: Hostnames

#39

Post by mentalbastille » Sat, Oct 12, 2013, 9:22 PM UTC

I once worked for a telecommunications company that used condom brands for internal server host names. Makes me wonder if there are any other major companies that use somewhat inappropriate names for their non-client-facing equipment.

Re: Hostnames

#40

Post by kmfrk » Sat, Oct 12, 2013, 9:25 PM UTC

I believe it was the Disqus team who described using StarCraft names divided into either races or units vs. buildings.