For security reasons, I would try to stay away from things like "mainmailserver" or "ouronlyfileserver" This makes it a little more tempting to would be hackers if these boxes are connected directly to the internet.
I have a friend who names computers after old arcade games like "zaxxon", which is pretty cool. I just give mine any name I think up. frank= my linux web/file server named after frankenstein (you would understand if you saw the box) buxter=my w2k desktop named after some crazy dog my wife used to have years ago that did backflipps kbox= my knoppix box named for obvious reasons Or if you have a limited number of machines, lets say five, you can name them after members of the Jackson 5. Jermaine, Jackie, Michael, Marlon, and Tito! My next naming scheme is going to be after futurama characters and I'll roll that over to the simpsons if I run out of names. It would be cool to have a mail server named Apu or Bender, although it would scare me just a bit to have a linux router named Fry. Anywho, back to work for me... Adam J. Melancon ----Original Message Follows---- From: will hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: [brlug-general] Server Names. Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 03:44:27 -0500 Greek gods, heroes and historians are my favorites. I started with Erris, goddess of strife and competition. I get them from a Tulane professor's translation of Hesiod's Theogony for the most part. If I run out, I'll use Roman names and then turn to Shinto or the bible, but I don't think I'll run out. Historians and politicians are good names for servers. If you know something about the machine's owner, you can have some fun. Windows machines should all be named Pandora. Other names come from the box or person. An old gateway 586 had a decal of a happy nuclear stick family and the word "family PC" on the front, so I named it familyPC. My laptop is an IBM model 760LD, so I named it old76. Oddball names like Erno, just have to be used as is. A physics grad student at LSU named his workstation Elvis so that ping would return "elvis is alive". On 2003.08.17 21:28 Will Lowe wrote: > Your comment about "finding good names for the servers" gave me a thought. > I've know system admin's that use all kind of naming schemes. Some of them > use things like tree type (oak, elm, etc). Others use colors like silver, > red, blue, etc. When I first started in this business I named workstations > after the user that used it most but because people move so much that > becomes a problem so now I name using something like the phone extension or > office number where it is located. For servers I usually name something like > srv1, srv2, etc. > > What scheme do any of you use? > > Will Lowe > _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net _________________________________________________________________ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail
