This is a little off of the normal lines of the list. But I am at a loss as to what naming convention I should use with my new set of servers. I have already used Southpark, Jet sons,and Warner brothers cartoons. Does any one have any good suggestions other than the Super Friends? I apologize ahead of time if this email seems useless to some of you.. but humor me please. James james@iceblue.net <mailto:james@iceblue.net>
My personal fav is Top Gun names: - Maverick - Merlin - Slider - Hollywood - Viper - Charlie - Goose - Iceman - Jester - and, of course, rubberdogs&&t I've also used Arthurian myths (lancelot, merlin, etc.), Star Wars, Spaceballs (helmet, megamaid, etc), and Sesame Street characters. Peanuts characters might work too. For a more scientific flavor, try names of dinosaurs, dogs or plants. You could go with inventors (Edison, Bell, etc.), scientists (the entire Manhattan project, for example), or just plain old systematic names. Have fun. Steve Dispensa CCIE #5444, MCSE+I ----- Original Message ----- From: DeepBlue <james@darkblue.net> To: <nanog@merit.edu> Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 1:04 PM Subject: SERVER NAMES
This is a little off of the normal lines of the list. But I am at a loss as to what naming convention I should use with my new set of servers. I have already used Southpark, Jet sons,and Warner brothers cartoons. Does any one have any good suggestions other than the Super Friends?
I apologize ahead of time if this email seems useless to some of you.. but humor me please.
James james@iceblue.net <mailto:james@iceblue.net>
On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Steve Dispensa wrote:
My personal fav is Top Gun names:
[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...) /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ Patrick Greenwell Earth is a single point of failure. \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/
On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Patrick Greenwell wrote:
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?)
Actually I try to name my machines around here the code name of the OS it's running if the intent of the machine is to have one of those running. chicago, greenriver, moab, etc. etc. I for a while was using "farm-type" names. My "core" Unix Server for my company is actually named "workhorse", which it is and will remain for quite a while. My firewall is "barbwire". I have up on this when I devolved to using names like yoke, saddle, etc. Although, now I think about it, I've got a machine over there that "ox" would be strangely appropriate. Nowadays, If it isn't an "os testing box", I use something I feel is appropriate. For example, I do picoBSD development on a box here called "oldblock". (You know, those picobsd boxes are just a chip of the old block").
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...)
At the ISP I do sysadmin for that's how we're going. There SHOULD be a cname for every one of those anyways. This being a small isp, the machines are really named "mail.mt.net" "www.mt.net" and (soon) "corp.mt.net". Traditional "small" services like DNS live on lewis.mt.net and clark.mt.net, which, along with our now retired news server, helena.mt.net which were based on local names. Although the best server name I've heard in a while is "bigbertha", which is a rather large solaris box at the local county government. Big Bertha was the name of one of the "famous" local women of ill repute from early helena history. Needless to say, this caused a stir, at least until the box showed up and when several people looked at it they said "Yep, big bertha". - Forrest W. Christian (forrestc@imach.com) KD7EHZ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- iMach, Ltd., P.O. Box 5749, Helena, MT 59604 http://www.imach.com Solutions for your high-tech problems. (406)-442-6648 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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...)
Sure. Esp. for blackhats. Which makes the more "attactive" target; db.accounting.bigcorp.com foozlebutt.bigcorp.com ... YMMV --bill
On Wed, 2 Feb 2000 bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com wrote:
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...)
Sure. Esp. for blackhats. Which makes the more "attactive" target;
db.accounting.bigcorp.com foozlebutt.bigcorp.com
Do we need to re-visit the "security through obscurity" argument here? /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ Patrick Greenwell Earth is a single point of failure. \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/
Patrick Greenwell: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 11:08 PM
On Wed, 2 Feb 2000 bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com wrote:
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
Sure. Esp. for blackhats. Which makes the more "attactive" target;
db.accounting.bigcorp.com foozlebutt.bigcorp.com
Do we need to re-visit the "security through obscurity" argument here?
Obscurity is like chicken soup ... it can't hurt and it gives you that warm feeling...<grin> Who knows ? ... it might help someday, or raise some crackers life-is-hell quotient just a notch higher. Every little bit helps.
On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote:
db.accounting.bigcorp.com foozlebutt.bigcorp.com
Do we need to re-visit the "security through obscurity" argument here?
Obscurity is like chicken soup ... it can't hurt
A false sense of security is worse than no sense of security at all. The proof is left as an execise for the reader. /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ Patrick Greenwell Earth is a single point of failure. \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/
On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Patrick Greenwell wrote:
Sure. Esp. for blackhats. Which makes the more "attactive" target;
db.accounting.bigcorp.com foozlebutt.bigcorp.com
Do we need to re-visit the "security through obscurity" argument here?
I think some level of obscurity is needed when it comes to DNS names. Think about how many people still include things like HINFO, WKS, AFSDB, X25, ISDN, and RT records in their zone files. It's a lot less common than it used to be, though I come across them every so often. The idea is that by obscuring some areas of information via certain services, it will be easier to catch Cracker X via an IDS, firewall, etc. when he/she has to use alternate means to get the information he/she wants. Example: Company A has a big bad firewall and IDS setup that they paid a lot of money for to stop people from trying to mount attacks into their soft, chewy corporate network, full of confidential information and R&D boxes. So, they can do such neat things as detect portscans and block incoming traffic from the offending host and other such things in an effort to help keep information about their network a secret. Not a bad thing, really, though the ability for network security hardware to make decisions on it's own still makes me a bit uneasy, but that's getting off on a tangent. So, they've got this great setup, but they've been kind enough to provide you with WKS and HINFO records and the ability to transfer their entire zone file(s). Then you've got an instant list of servers and what OS/services they are running without ever using nmap/strobe, making all that money invested in the firewall and IDS somewhat of a waste. It's certainly self-defeating. I've found large companies who seem to have a SysAdmin group handling all the servers/services (DNS) and a Networking group handling the firewalls and IDS don't seem to communicate very well. It comes down to a case of the right hand not knowing exactly what the left is doing, and it's detrimental to the security posture of any company. But, in some cases this can work to your advantage. You can name a honeypot machine customerbillingdb.company.com with HINFO of something really exploitable like RedHat 5.1 or an old Solaris version and see what kind of things happen. Wow, pseudo-operational content about the effectiveness of hostnames. -- Joseph W. Shaw - jshaw@insync.net Computer Security Consultant and Programmer Free UNIX advocate - "I hack, therefore I am."
On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Patrick Greenwell wrote:
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...)
On our network we use "proper hostnames" for the machines and their base addresses, and then associate mundane things like 'www' or 'ns0' as logical interfaces - means we can swing a service from one machine to another without needing to mess with base addresses. As for what those proper hostnames are, historically we've used Pooh characters (tigger being the company's first server, because he who put it together wasn't entirely sure it wouldn't bounce regularly). We ran out of those a while back, so new internal servers are being named after muppets, office workstations are based after underground stations (guess who got cockfosters for an NT box), and the mail servers I'm putting together at the moment are named after appropriate chocolate bars (flake, timeout and so on...) One of our competitors seems to have servers named after cigarette brands, which was rather novel. There are few pleasures in day to day sysadmin/netadmin work, no reason to give up the chance to use original hostnames...original not applying to gods, chemical elements and the like! -- Patrick Evans - Sysadmin, bran addict and couch potato pre at pre dot org www.pre.org/pre
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 ]----------+
Patrick Greenwell wrote:
On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Steve Dispensa wrote:
My personal fav is Top Gun names:
[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?)
That is what cnames are for, Patrick. -- North Shore Technologies, Cleveland, OH http://NorthShoreTechnologies.net Steve Sobol, President, Chief Website Architect and Janitor sjsobol@NorthShoreTechnologies.net - 888.480.4NET - 216.619.2NET One good thing about the Y2K hoopla: I haven't forgotten to write 2000 as the year on a single one of my checks! :)
The list is endless. Here's a few off the top of my head: Babylon 5 UserFriendly Magic the Gathering Lord of the Rings Zodiac signs Greek / Roman gods or if you're really brave... Pokemon! -----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of DeepBlue Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 11:05 AM To: 'nanog@merit.edu' Subject: SERVER NAMES This is a little off of the normal lines of the list. But I am at a loss as to what naming convention I should use with my new set of servers. I have already used Southpark, Jet sons,and Warner brothers cartoons. Does any one have any good suggestions other than the Super Friends? I apologize ahead of time if this email seems useless to some of you.. but humor me please. James james@iceblue.net
Magic The Gathering works well. There's a bajillion names you can use and since its a money-maker for the company, they'll keep making cards, so you'll keep having names to use unless you fill up some huge data-center somewhere with machines. :) D At 11:30 AM 2/2/00 -0800, Rachel Luxemburg wrote:
The list is endless. Here's a few off the top of my head: Babylon 5 UserFriendly Magic the Gathering Lord of the Rings Zodiac signs Greek / Roman gods
or if you're really brave... Pokemon!
-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of DeepBlue Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 11:05 AM To: 'nanog@merit.edu' Subject: SERVER NAMES
This is a little off of the normal lines of the list. But I am at a loss as to what naming convention I should use with my new set of servers. I have already used Southpark, Jet sons,and Warner brothers cartoons. Does any one have any good suggestions other than the Super Friends?
I apologize ahead of time if this email seems useless to some of you.. but humor me please.
James james@iceblue.net
What about Pokemon? These will go on forever as well.... You could even use a Pokedex to keep track of your passwords! ~mark At 02:39 PM 2/2/2000 , Derek J. Balling wrote:
Magic The Gathering works well. There's a bajillion names you can use and since its a money-maker for the company, they'll keep making cards, so you'll keep having names to use unless you fill up some huge data-center somewhere with machines. :)
D
At 11:30 AM 2/2/00 -0800, Rachel Luxemburg wrote:
The list is endless. Here's a few off the top of my head: Babylon 5 UserFriendly Magic the Gathering Lord of the Rings Zodiac signs Greek / Roman gods
or if you're really brave... Pokemon!
-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of DeepBlue Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 11:05 AM To: 'nanog@merit.edu' Subject: SERVER NAMES
This is a little off of the normal lines of the list. But I am at a loss as to what naming convention I should use with my new set of servers. I have already used Southpark, Jet sons,and Warner brothers cartoons. Does any one have any good suggestions other than the Super Friends?
I apologize ahead of time if this email seems useless to some of you.. but humor me please.
James james@iceblue.net
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I like historic twins, like Huascar and Atahualpa (if I got the spelling correctly from memory), the brothers whose civil war ended the Inca empire. Then there are rivers, like Guadalquivir (from which Columbus sailed). Oh, and famous animals. Try Kanthaka, the horse Buddha rode away from home. ...Scott
I like historic twins, like Huascar and Atahualpa (if I got the spelling correctly from memory), the brothers whose civil war ended the Inca empire. Then there are rivers, like Guadalquivir (from which Columbus sailed). Oh, and famous animals. Try Kanthaka, the horse Buddha rode away from home.
i suspect rosenantes may be more appropriate in this context randy
operas (admittedly, diemeistersingervonnurnberg.ops.foo.net can get a little difficult) d&d spells piers anthony books hurricane names at cmu we'd name them after something associated with the lab they were in: natural disasters (in the computing center, the building was a disaster) characters in sherlock holmes books (baker hall -> baker street) sci-fi planets (the science building) i'm currently using retired hurricane names we're using retired hurricane names by order of their retirement -faisal
I do precious gemstones. For example, my nameservers are amethyst.nstc.com and topaz.nstc.com... "Derek J. Balling" wrote:
Magic The Gathering works well. There's a bajillion names you can use and since its a money-maker for the company, they'll keep making cards, so you'll keep having names to use unless you fill up some huge data-center somewhere with machines. :)
D
At 11:30 AM 2/2/00 -0800, Rachel Luxemburg wrote:
The list is endless. Here's a few off the top of my head: Babylon 5 UserFriendly Magic the Gathering Lord of the Rings Zodiac signs Greek / Roman gods
or if you're really brave... Pokemon!
-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of DeepBlue Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 11:05 AM To: 'nanog@merit.edu' Subject: SERVER NAMES
This is a little off of the normal lines of the list. But I am at a loss as to what naming convention I should use with my new set of servers. I have already used Southpark, Jet sons,and Warner brothers cartoons. Does any one have any good suggestions other than the Super Friends?
I apologize ahead of time if this email seems useless to some of you.. but humor me please.
James james@iceblue.net
-- North Shore Technologies, Cleveland, OH http://NorthShoreTechnologies.net Steve Sobol, President, Chief Website Architect and Janitor sjsobol@NorthShoreTechnologies.net - 888.480.4NET - 216.619.2NET One good thing about the Y2K hoopla: I haven't forgotten to write 2000 as the year on a single one of my checks! :)
At 11:30 AM 2/2/00 -0800, Rachel Luxemburg wrote:
The list is endless. Here's a few off the top of my head: Babylon 5 UserFriendly Magic the Gathering Lord of the Rings Zodiac signs Greek / Roman gods
Those are good ones, but everyone uses them. ('Cept the UserFriendly thing - that's new.) I prefer quantum/sub-atomic particles. If you extend this to the molecular level, you have a pool of literally 10s of 1000s of names from which to pull. (Maybe 100s of 1000s, I haven't checked.) I have always wanted my desktop to be "boson.ianai.net". :)
or if you're really brave... Pokemon!
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Best I ever saw (and I'd still like to do it again some day) was the names of streets in the city where the company's main offices were located. Every now and then, the ops team would gather around a map program and have it wander through a neighborhood, looking for interesting names -- especially of little alleyways. Since this was in San Francisco, it was pretty easy. ---------========== J.D. Falk <jdfalk@cybernothing.org> =========--------- | "We all agree that your theory is mad. | | The problem which divides us is this: | | is it sufficiently crazy to be right?" -Dr. Neils Bohr | ----========== http://www.cybernothing.org/jdfalk/home.html ==========----
On Wed, Feb 02, 2000, I Am Not An Isp wrote:
I prefer quantum/sub-atomic particles. If you extend this to the molecular level, you have a pool of literally 10s of 1000s of names from which to pull. (Maybe 100s of 1000s, I haven't checked.)
I have always wanted my desktop to be "boson.ianai.net". :)
Or you could have tachyon.ianai.net, and get the work done before you've started.. Adrian -- Adrian Chadd Systems Engineer <adrian@ip.versatel.net> Versatel Telecom BV Amsterdam, The Netherlands "Music in the soul can be heard by the universe" - Lao Tsu
My current scheme is to use names of various techno artists (sasha, aphex, oakenfold, orbital, etc) at work, and just random stuff at home (crasher2, miniluv, toxygene, etc). It works for me. Then again, noone else has to spell my machine names, since there's a good set of CNAME's ;-) -rt (human-readable hostnames? bah) -- Ryan Tucker <rtucker@netacc.net> Unix Systems Administrator NetAccess, Inc. Phone: +1 716 756-5596 3495 Winton Place, Building E, Suite 265, Rochester NY 14623 www.netacc.net On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Rachel Luxemburg wrote:
The list is endless. Here's a few off the top of my head: Babylon 5 UserFriendly Magic the Gathering Lord of the Rings Zodiac signs Greek / Roman gods
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On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 11:30:21AM -0800, Rachel Luxemburg wrote:
The list is endless. Here's a few off the top of my head: Babylon 5 UserFriendly Magic the Gathering Lord of the Rings Zodiac signs Greek / Roman gods
I have opted at home for the names of mountains prefering the native names of mountains that have something other than an English name (e.g. Denali vs. McKinley) I've run through the highest point on every continent, and others of particular interest (like the mail server here being mauna-kea). -- Sam Thomas Geek Mercenary
This is a little off of the normal lines of the list. But I am at a loss as to what naming convention I should use with my new set of servers. I have already used Southpark, Jet sons,and Warner brothers cartoons. Does any one have any good suggestions other than the Super Friends?
the last time i had to name a bunch of machines, i went for renaissance figures: boticelli, davinci, michaelangelo, medici, etc. but if you're sufficiently insane (like me :), you could just pick random words from the dictionary. that's a nigh-infinite source of words as far as hostnames are concerned. -- |-----< "CODE WARRIOR" >-----| codewarrior@daemon.org * "ah! i see you have the internet twofsonet@graffiti.com (Andrew Brown) that goes *ping*!" andrew@crossbar.com * "information is power -- share the wealth."
Sorry, I have to get into this. We once had a bunch of AIX (aches) machines to name, so we named them things like, bunion, hangnail, piles... Things that hurt. (don't know that I should sign this...)
This is a little off of the normal lines of the list. But I am at a loss as to what naming convention I should use with my new set of servers. I have already used Southpark, Jet sons,and Warner brothers cartoons. Does any one have any good suggestions other than the Super Friends?
also...take a look at rfc2100. -- |-----< "CODE WARRIOR" >-----| codewarrior@daemon.org * "ah! i see you have the internet twofsonet@graffiti.com (Andrew Brown) that goes *ping*!" andrew@crossbar.com * "information is power -- share the wealth."
Although the number is somewhat limited, I like the Dilbert characters. i.e. ratbert, dogbert, catbert, point-haired -- James Smith, CCNA Network/System Administrator DXSTORM.COM http://www.dxstorm.com/ DXSTORM Inc. 2140 Winston Park Drive, Suite 203 Oakville, ON, CA L6H 5V5 Tel: 905-829-3389 (email preferred) Fax: 905-829-5692 1-877-DXSTORM (1-877-397-8676) It's Unix or nothing! On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, DeepBlue wrote:
This is a little off of the normal lines of the list. But I am at a loss as to what naming convention I should use with my new set of servers. I have already used Southpark, Jet sons,and Warner brothers cartoons. Does any one have any good suggestions other than the Super Friends?
I apologize ahead of time if this email seems useless to some of you.. but humor me please.
James james@iceblue.net <mailto:james@iceblue.net>
I can only say what we use here, at MHSC. One group I haven't seen here yet are birds, crossed with type of use and sub-domain. Condors are always main development machines, Ravens are data servers, falcons are support/noc hosts, hawks are intranet *DCs, peregrin's are management machines, owls are QA servers and source repositories, etc. All workstations are DHCP'd so names need not be man-readable and follow conventions like wksta1.dhcp.mhsc.com, with SMB names that are also the uuid names of their assigned user. -----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of DeepBlue Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 11:05 AM To: 'nanog@merit.edu' Subject: SERVER NAMES This is a little off of the normal lines of the list. But I am at a loss as to what naming convention I should use with my new set of servers. I have already used Southpark, Jet sons,and Warner brothers cartoons. Does any one have any good suggestions other than the Super Friends? I apologize ahead of time if this email seems useless to some of you.. but humor me please. James james@iceblue.net
On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, DeepBlue wrote:
This is a little off of the normal lines of the list. But I am at a loss as to what naming convention I should use with my new set of servers. I have already used Southpark, Jet sons,and Warner brothers cartoons. Does any one have any good suggestions other than the Super Friends?
I apologize ahead of time if this email seems useless to some of you.. but humor me please.
Last time around I had a few Network Appliance boxes to name. The first one was called 'toaster' by default. That evolved into a general naming convention along the lines of 'kitchen appliances ending in "er"'. This time around I've gone for children's TV characters, though I doubt the likes of Sneaky-Snake and Mr Crow ever made a name for themselves outside of Ireland... -Ronan
Outage reports result in flames, yet this is appropriate for nanog?
People who submit outage reports actually are being serious, and one stands a chance of having a reasoned discussion with them. People who use block capitals as shouting in their Subjects and explicitly apologize for their content in the initial message, however, are less convincable. People who provide taciturn responses to inappropriate traffic on NANOG sometimes rate-limit themselves when they feel an extreme sarcasm rush coming on. Unfortunately, sometimes we fail. --jhawk
I once named a Usenet server tatooine, for the vast wasteland that Usenet is. Maybe this thread should be relegated there also. At 10:44 PM 2/2/00 -0500, Brian Wallingford wrote:
Outage reports result in flames, yet this is appropriate for nanog?
Bletch.
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On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Eric Germann wrote:
I once named a Usenet server tatooine, for the vast wasteland that Usenet is. Maybe this thread should be relegated there also.
I think Mos-Eisley would have been even more appropriate. ... a haven for thieves, pirates and smugglers... ...this "wretched hive of scum and villainy." ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jon Lewis *jlewis@lewis.org*| Spammers will be winnuked or System Administrator | nestea'd...whatever it takes Atlantic Net | to get the job done. _________http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key__________
On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 02:04:37PM -0500, DeepBlue wrote:
This is a little off of the normal lines of the list. But I am at a loss as to what naming convention I should use with my new set of servers. I have already used Southpark, Jet sons,and Warner brothers cartoons. Does any one have any good suggestions other than the Super Friends?
I apologize ahead of time if this email seems useless to some of you.. but humor me please.
I'm still firmly in the middle of IRC chicks, almost never-ending supply of them. -- Richard A. Steenbergen <ras@above.net> http://users.quadrunner.com/humble PGP Key ID: 0x60AB0AD1 (E5 35 10 1D DE 7D 8C A7 09 1C 80 8B AF B9 77 BB) MFN / AboveNet Communications Inc - ISX Network Engineer, Vienna VA
Bad Hannah-Barbera cartoons. There's an infinite amount of those. :) -- Joseph W. Shaw - jshaw@insync.net Computer Security Consultant and Programmer Free UNIX advocate - "I hack, therefore I am." On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, DeepBlue wrote:
This is a little off of the normal lines of the list. But I am at a loss as to what naming convention I should use with my new set of servers. I have already used Southpark, Jet sons,and Warner brothers cartoons. Does any one have any good suggestions other than the Super Friends?
I apologize ahead of time if this email seems useless to some of you.. but humor me please.
James james@iceblue.net <mailto:james@iceblue.net>
On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 02:04:37PM -0500, DeepBlue mailed:
This is a little off of the normal lines of the list. But I am at a loss as to what naming convention I should use with my new set of servers. I have already used Southpark, Jet sons,and Warner brothers cartoons. Does any one have any good suggestions other than the Super Friends?
My favorite while I was working in the states was national parks. There is a good number of them and a wide variety. Cool machines or servers got cool names, eg. Denali. POS machines got un-cool names, eg. "Big Thicket". -- Bryan C. Andregg * <bandregg@redhat.com> * Red Hat, Inc. 1024/625FA2C5 F5 F3 DC 2E 8E AF 26 B0 2C 31 78 C2 6C FB 02 77 1024/0x46E7A8A2 46EB 61B1 71BD 2960 723C 38B6 21E4 23CC 46E7 A8A2
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