At my last job we named all the servers in one building after atoms in the
periodic table. One location used names from Babylon 5, another used
Scottish
names and another used planets.
Routers and switches were different. We actually came up with a meaningful
convention. For instance:
r-b1-b2-b1 - Router from building one to building two in building one.
r-b1-b2-b2 - Router from building one to building two in building two.
For the reverse DNS entries, we sometimes put the line type at the end:
r-b1-b2-b2-T1 or r-b1-b2-b2-ISDN
Switches would use something like:
s-b1-1s-1 - Switch in building one, 1st floor south side, switch #1
It's a little cryptic for those who aren't familiar with the topology. Once
you understand it, it makes life a little easier.
Ken
>>> "Chuck Larrieu" 09/22/01 10:04PM >>>
reminds me a bit of the long running discussions about the naming of
servers.
the tradeoff is having fun names versus functional names, and having no
pneumonic that is self documenting as opposed to perhaps providing hackers
with neon lights leading to critical business functions worth hacking.
so - do you name your servers ( or routers, for that matter ) things like
"accounting" and "payroll" and "intellectual_property" or do you name them
Frodo, Cirdan, Aragorn, and Saruman?
Chuck
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