On-net we use law enforcement agency names, and for those off-net we use the names of reigning mafia families in NFL cities and South American drug cartels. --- MAdcock@hisna.com wrote: From: "Adcock, Matt [HISNA]" <MAdcock@hisna.com> To: "Ravi Pina" <ravi@cow.org>, "Randy Bush" <randy@psg.com> Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: RE: Network Naming Conventions Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 06:10:40 -0700 I've used a Jimmy Buffett theme in test labs before. Matt Adcock, Manager 334-481-6629 (w) / 334-312-5393 (m) / MAdcock@hisna.com 700 Hyundai Blvd. / Montgomery, AL 36105 P The average office worker uses 10,000 sheets of paper = 1.2 trees, per year By not printing this email, you’ve saved paper, ink and millions of trees From: Ravi Pina [mailto:ravi@cow.org] Sent: Sat 3/13/2010 3:33 PM To: Randy Bush Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Network Naming Conventions On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 04:58:11AM +0900, Randy Bush wrote:
On my last network I named all the routers after simpsons characters.
scaled well?
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I used to use dead presidents to name devices. Lincoln, Washington, Jefferson, etc. Humorous yet patriotic. Marc
On Mar 15, 2010, at 11:37 AM, Sachs, Marcus Hans (Marc) wrote:
I used to use dead presidents to name devices. Lincoln, Washington, Jefferson, etc. Humorous yet patriotic.
We used to use deceased musicians. Popular (i.e., rock) for Linux servers. Classical musicians for everything else. But, lately, we are moving more to just numbers (webNNN, etc.) . Regards Marshall
Marc
Hi there, we brainstormed alot about this topic some time ago, following some conclusions: - anything trademarked might be a problem (so Zoidberg might be cool for a router, but I couldn't take a router named Zapp for serious, and "Farnsworth is going mad" would be considered as normal operation ;-)) - anything just existing in a limited number will be a problem (the mentioned presidents of the US of A might not follow a fast as needed by network growth, same applies to grape varieties, planets and similar) - anything which may be regarded as discriminating like female names might be a problem (while "Sharra" is a beautiful name for a router, at least if you like George R. R. Martin) - anything vendor or model related is a bad idea in case of replacements So, what remains? Stars [astr.] are an option. There are enough of them, they are neither trademarked nor discriminating, there are even enough with quite short and simple names. Further, we wanted device type and location to be encoded. So we ended up with something like xe-0-0-0.cr-polaris.fra1.hosteurope.de, xe-0-1-0.cr-pollux.cgn3.hosteurope.de or ae0-v12.cs-slave.r2.cgn3.hosteurope.de Since Core Switches always are operated as redundant pairs, the are named master/slave, as they work as those per data centre room. Of course, we could have just chosen "cr-$number", but at least a little bit of "colour" should be allowed in such a digital world like ours ;-) Kind regards, .m -- Malte von dem Hagen Teamleitung Network Engineering & Operation Abteilung Technik ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Host Europe GmbH - http://www.hosteurope.de Welserstraße 14 - 51149 Köln - Germany Telefon: 0800 467 8387 - Fax: +49 180 5 66 3233 (*) HRB 28495 Amtsgericht Köln - USt-IdNr.: DE187370678 Geschäftsführer: Uwe Braun - Alex Collins - Mark Joseph - Patrick Pulvermüller (*) 0,14 EUR/Min. aus dem dt. Festnetz; maximal 0,42 EUR/Min. aus den dt. Mobilfunknetzen
A Helpful resource. http://www.namingschemes.com/ I used Element names from the periodic table for physical servers in a VMware Cluster once. I used robot names from Futurama for Continuous Integration build agents (Atlassian Bamboo) I have seen stars, greek gods, Lord of the rings characters and places, cheers characters, Greek Letters. This was all at one place mind you. System names should be fun, you can give out a professional aliases to managers. -- Jason Fried Deloitte Consulting LLP Tel/Direct: +1 601 584 1536 www.deloitte.com This message (including any attachments) contains confidential information intended for a specific individual and purpose, and is protected by law. If you are not the intended recipient, you should delete this message. Any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this message, or the taking of any action based on it, is strictly prohibited. [v.E.1]
- Beers (the main server got to be "anchor", which made our ex-Navy boss happy and seemed more professional than some others - Mountains, mostly volcanic - Psychoactive chemicals ("the database is on speed, the development project's on prozac...) - Friends at Princeton used quarks ("Up is down today.") and random names like "3bvax". - Classical composers - Tolkien characters (one of the reasons for DNS was that too many people wanted to name their machine "frodo" or "mozart".)
Sub-atomic particles. Some people say there are not enough, but they just don't realize how many there are. Plus you can expand into elements, then compounds. -- TTFN, patrick
On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 18:51 -0400, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
but they just don't realize how many there are.
wow, deja-vu ! A few years ago I went into a large SSI infrastructure undergoing reconfiguration where the cluster nodes were named along the lines of biscuits, pizzas, vegetables, sweets (candies), types of mud/dirt, grit, etc etc - it made no sense until I came across a README_NOC_OPS document that clarified it all (paraphrasing): "Serviceable nodes have are named after fragments known to be found in Richard M. Stallman's beard. At-risk, scheduled-for-pull or questionable throughput nodes are named after fragments assumed to be found in Ballmer's shorts. " Both categories seemed at least 128-bit-space to me :) Gord -- Do you know? Don't you wonder? What's going on down under you We have all been here before, we have all been here before -David Crosby
Bill Stewart <nonobvious@gmail.com> writes:
- Tolkien characters (one of the reasons for DNS was that too many people wanted to name their machine "frodo" or "mozart".)
Diskworld characters are also quite common. For my own systems I use names of single malts. cheers Je 'typing on Bowmore' ns -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Foelderichstr. 40 | 13595 Berlin, Germany | +49-151-18721264 | | http://www.quux.de | http://blog.quux.de | jabber: jenslink@guug.de | -------------------------------------------------------------------------
For Shipwright.com, it's Donald McKay's ships <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_McKay> and famous clippers (shortened) (Flying) cloud, (Neptune's) car, &cet, then Jack Aubrey's commands <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Aubrey> (sophie, surprise...), and, finally, the names of various sentient ships in the Iain M. Banks "Culture" universe <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ships_(The_Culture)> (Prosthetic) conscience, (Kiss My) ass, (Shoot Them) later, &cet. Haven't really scratched the surface, there :-). For IBUC.com it's names of bearer instruments throughout history. bullae, talent, penny, &cet. For Philodox.com it's sophists and other intellectual charlatans. protagoras, gorgias, mesmer, lysenko, &cet. No shortage of those, either. rah.ai is only one machine, so far. Haven't come up with a naming convention there, haven't begun to think about it, either. Maybe the words of the LRY Cheer, or something... Cheers, RAH
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Bill Stewart
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Frank A. Coluccio
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Fried, Jason (US - Hattiesburg)
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gordon b slater
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Jens Link
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Malte von dem Hagen
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Marshall Eubanks
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Patrick W. Gilmore
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R.A. Hettinga
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Sachs, Marcus Hans (Marc)