Re: Server naming conventions

[Dan Oachs <doachs () GAC EDU>]

The most fun and unique names we have used recently were animal sounds. 
It was really odd to over hear our conversations about having issues 
with meow, woof being down, time to upgrade quack, etc. We also had a 
windows server named crash, which was unusually stable.

--Dan Oachs




Woodruff, Daniel wrote:
> 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

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