Patrick Greenwell [Re: SERVER NAMES] 2.2.2000 ...................................................................... . [list deleted] . . Not picking on you in particular, but isn't one of the greatest advantages . to having DNS to offer *meaningful* names to machines(assuming anything . other than a home network?) . . It's nice to be able to go in to a company and see machines named "www1, . www2, mx1, mx2" etc. which offer some indication as to their purpose . rather than "maverick, foozlebutt, blarg", etc. which offers no such . indication. I know it isn't as fun, but it certainly seems to be much more . useful (IMO of course...) You're not alone here I was wondering the same thing. The company I work for and the company I run privately both use naming schemes in the form of: [CITY]2[STATE]2[PURPOSE]2[ASSET #][PRIMARY SECONDARY - IF NT] Example: NACAMX01B We know this server is in Napa, California, it's a mail server, the first one and it's a backup domain controler for an NT network. Just a though folks :) Greg +(Omni@Dynmc.Net)------------------------------------------------------+ | Dynamic Networking Solutions InterX Technologies | | Senior Network Administrator bits/keyID 1024/7DF9C285 | | omni@interx.net omni@itstudio.net omni@undernet.org omni@webpop3.com | +--------[ DC 50 57 59 C3 76 46 E8 EB 75 A8 94 FE 96 9E D3 ]----------+