On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 21:26 -0400, Jake Pollmann wrote: > I'm currently merging two IT environments that each have an Ares and > Hermes. It sucks. I've seen Star Wars, LOTR, volcano names, islands, > and mountain peaks all in multiple environments. In each one the > admins thought they were the only ones in the world that would use > those conventions. > > There is one true naming convention for servers: > > NearestairportcodeSiteFunctionNumber > > > for example: > > SLCMDCMAIL01 (Salt Lake City International, Metro Data Center, Mail, > First Server) > > Combining hostnames like that with a registered domain name should > theoretically give you a globally unique name for each server. It > isn't glamorous or clever or funny, but it scales.
Maybe I'm a little dense, but I'm pretty sure that's what DNS was invented for. Each site should have it's own subdomain. Something like, ares.west.mycompany.com or ares.east.mycompany.com. It's a bit more typing to require FQDNs, but that's what they are there for. Michael > > Jake > -------------------- > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > > The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their > author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
