Comment Re:Some principles for machine naming (Score 1) 862
I would suggest that this naming scheme should use names which are easy to type and remember rather than ones which are repetitive and formal. "srv001" through "srv999" might look nice and orderly, but in fact is much harder to remember and type than "rivers" or "cartoon characters" or "80's arcade games".
we got that problem here. servers have creative names, but workstations are "mscpc01"..."mscpc99". We actually print out names of Star Wars planets and tape them to the monitors of computers in the lab. Makes it even more confusing when you have to ask "What pc number is Dosha? I need to ping it..."
Thank god the servers are mostly named for fairy tales (robin-hood,little-john,charlotte) but even that is being set aside for strict functional names (we just added ftp and www, although ftp mainly gets used for ssh access from outside our firewall, and web pages are also served from charlotte, ljohn, rhood and mscpcweb. ack.)
we got that problem here. servers have creative names, but workstations are "mscpc01"..."mscpc99". We actually print out names of Star Wars planets and tape them to the monitors of computers in the lab. Makes it even more confusing when you have to ask "What pc number is Dosha? I need to ping it..."
Thank god the servers are mostly named for fairy tales (robin-hood,little-john,charlotte) but even that is being set aside for strict functional names (we just added ftp and www, although ftp mainly gets used for ssh access from outside our firewall, and web pages are also served from charlotte, ljohn, rhood and mscpcweb. ack.)
