Comments on: Host naming convention http://heimic.net/2009/10/17/host-naming-convention/ Mon, 09 Aug 2010 05:11:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Rendrag http://heimic.net/2009/10/17/host-naming-convention/comment-page-1/#comment-365 Rendrag Sat, 24 Oct 2009 04:17:05 +0000 http://heimic.net/?p=365#comment-365 We've used a few methods over the years.. Up until about 3 years ago, all my personal machines were babylon 5 related - vorlon, babcom, drussi, narn, minbar, jumpgate, centauri, terra, shadow, whitestar, aggamemnon.. (http://echelon.pinegap.net/~damien/stuff/network.html for a chuckle at ooooold-school hardware, from back in the day :) ) Our servers at work were originally all planets (jupiter, europa, pluto), then changed to Dr.Who races/worlds, when we changed sysadmins to a guy who was dr.who mad.. - sontaran, silurian, vardan, aggador, kaos, nimon, skaro, movellan, auton, ra, zygon, then eventually as we grew became more function-based.. i.e. dt-netsim, dt-master, dt-slave, prod.oracle, dev.oracle, test.oracle, prod.psql, dev.psql, prod.mysql, dev.mysql.. For other giggles, http://echelon.pinegap.net/~damien/isanetwork1.png that one goes back a good 6 years :) Our sister company used Islands for all their machines - though I could never remember which machine was which - i ended up identifying them by static assigning their IP addresses in DHCP, and incrementing as they went clockwise around their office ;) And of course these days at work, it's completely functionality-based.. border, vms1, vms2, vms3, vms4, mail.clients, mailfilter, backup-mail, etc :) At home, its more based on look.. - MBP is silversurfer, TC is tardis, video editing PC (which is black) is blackie, shed PC is simply 'shed' ;) We’ve used a few methods over the years.. Up until about 3 years ago, all my personal machines were babylon 5 related – vorlon, babcom, drussi, narn, minbar, jumpgate, centauri, terra, shadow, whitestar, aggamemnon.. (http://echelon.pinegap.net/~damien/stuff/network.html for a chuckle at ooooold-school hardware, from back in the day :) )

Our servers at work were originally all planets (jupiter, europa, pluto), then changed to Dr.Who races/worlds, when we changed sysadmins to a guy who was dr.who mad.. – sontaran, silurian, vardan, aggador, kaos, nimon, skaro, movellan, auton, ra, zygon, then eventually as we grew became more function-based.. i.e. dt-netsim, dt-master, dt-slave, prod.oracle, dev.oracle, test.oracle, prod.psql, dev.psql, prod.mysql, dev.mysql.. For other giggles, http://echelon.pinegap.net/~damien/isanetwork1.png that one goes back a good 6 years :) Our sister company used Islands for all their machines – though I could never remember which machine was which – i ended up identifying them by static assigning their IP addresses in DHCP, and incrementing as they went clockwise around their office ;)

And of course these days at work, it’s completely functionality-based.. border, vms1, vms2, vms3, vms4, mail.clients, mailfilter, backup-mail, etc :)

At home, its more based on look.. – MBP is silversurfer, TC is tardis, video editing PC (which is black) is blackie, shed PC is simply ‘shed’ ;)

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