Re: Server naming conventions

["Perloff, Jim" <perloffj () UCHASTINGS EDU>]

I name my servers after naval heroes British or American 

 

Lord Nelson, 

Lord Vincent, 

(Lord Thomas) Cochrane, 

(John) Bulkeley, 

(Albert Leroy) David, 

(Robert) Blake, (from the Civil War not the actor)

(Stephen) Decatur, 

(Joshua) Humphreys, 

(Isaac) Hull, 

(Edward) Preble etc.  

 

Other people here have use fictional computers (Edgar, Hal_9000, Athena)
or mythological figures. Only one sys admin insists on using logical
names.

 

Jim

 

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http://uchastings.edu/infotech/index.html

 

From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv
[mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Greg Francis
Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 12:29 PM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Server naming conventions

 

 

We typically use either saints or jesuits. For the saints, we used what
they were the patron saint of in selecting the name. Used to be fine
with <50 servers. Now as we approach 200 servers, that's started to go
away. We're not out of saints, just ones that are well known! For
certain services, like our Citrix farm, we just use something like
CITRIX-01, etc. Boring, but effective. 

 

Our log management data collector is LMAO. 

 

Greg

 

Greg Francis
Director, Central Computing and Network Support Services
Gonzaga University

francis () gonzaga edu

509-313-6896





 

On Feb 10, 2010, at 11:17 AM, Woodruff, Daniel wrote:





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What kinds of naming conventions do everyone follow when building new
servers?

 

Currently, our Windows hosts are named following the pattern 'its-w2ks#'
or similar, where the # is the next in the sequence, and the names are
published in DNS. What are the potential drawbacks or using a scheme
like this? Do you think it is any better or worse from a security
perspective than using something like 'its-oracle-1' which has the
service right in the name? We're concerned about disclosing the purpose
of the machine via its name, and are trying to get an idea of what other
schools do for their machines. Thanks in advance.

 

Dan Woodruff

University IT Security and Policy

University of Rochester