Re: Server naming conventions

[Bob Bayn <bob.bayn () USU EDU>]

Woodruff, Daniel wrote:
> What kinds of naming conventions do everyone follow when building new
> servers?  ...

We're fond of names based on nonsense, fantasy and private jokes.  Except our subnet .6. which is a honeypot darknet 
with names like payroll, records, accounting, cashier, finaid, controller, grants, studentrecords, etc.

On the other hand, some of our user services have hostnames that match their function.  Users believe that a password 
management utility should be at password.usu.edu, not at eureka.ext.usu.edu (but a nslookup of the IP address returns 
the latter hostname, not the alias hostname).

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