Re: Server naming conventions

[Greg Francis <francis () GONZAGA EDU>]

We had to servers called CALVIN and HOBBES, named for the comic book characters. Being a Catholic university, there 
were some complaints when CALVIN became part of their e-mail domain! 

Greg Francis
Director, Central Computing and Network Support Services
Gonzaga University
francis () gonzaga edu
509-313-6896



On Feb 11, 2010, at 3:30 PM, Barry Lynam wrote:

> Was also resisting replying.  We've moved to using just service names as we
> move to virtual machines.  Uses never usually knew the real names anyway.
> The best set of names used was from our faculty of Build Environment and
> Engineering, BEE, so honey.bee, bumble.bee, killer.bee etc.
>
> We've also had some very groan worthy and cringe worthy.  Supercomputer back
> in the early 90's called sesame so that on terminal servers, you typed "open
> sesame".  Also has a student email host that basically just ran pine
> originally called turkey.  Also had a development box that accidentally
> became production, config error, it was called drongo.  A drongo is a bird,
> but in Australian slang is a bit of a fool, maybe takes a while to get the
> joke.  We received complaints.
>
> Barry
>
>
> On 12/02/10 8:06 AM, "Hammond, Stanley" <shammond () CAPECOD EDU> wrote:
>
> > Quote: "What kinds of naming conventions do everyone follow when
> > building new servers?"
> >
> > I have seen everything across the board with server naming conventions:
> > One system administrator at an institution used comic book characters
> > (X-Men) for the servers running the databases for the financial
> > applications and while another administrator used Greek/Norse mythology
> > names for the mail, web and research servers.  One Novell administrator
> > was a band musician and used the instrument (trombone, tuba, etc.) for
> > server names.  I was checking DNS records with our service provider
> > (another university) and they used the Scooby-Doo characters/objects
> > (shaggy, fred, mystery) for their servers.  Currently, we are on the
> > "boring" side with server names like most using "esx" for ESX servers,
> > "ex" for Exchange servers, etc.  It just seems to be the preference of
> > the system administrator on what they like.
> >
> > Stan Hammond
> > Information Security Specialist
> > Cape Cod Community College
>
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