re - Naming Computers

2020-07-15

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dctrud posted about interesting hostnaming schemes for computers [1].

On my home network I have gone with Saturnian moons, Titan, Rhea, Mimas, Dione because I was facinated by the imagery sent back by the Cassini probe of the diverse collection of rocks on their quiet orbits around the jovian [2][3].

Plus there's enough of them that I won't run out of names.

I also use dns CNAMES to point boring names for services (print.domain.tld, time.domain.tld) to the apropriate hosts. That way, if I migrate a service to another host I only have to update one dns record not multiple clients. Which is kind of cheating, or maybe just having my cake and eating it.

At work we use a boring convention to name servers after their location and their role. However, we did take over support for one school that had (years out of support Netware!) servers named after Simpsons characters. We sacrificed them to The Beast of Redmond. Resistance is futile.

[1] dctrud's post

[2] Cassini Images of Saturn and it's moons

[3] Cracking video of Cassini imagery

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2020-07-16 - Ninja edit

I remembered today that, as with lots of things in life,

there's a relevant xkcd.

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