Re: Server naming conventions

[Barbara Ann Torney <bt42 () COLUMBIA EDU>]

OK, I've gotta jump in with a couple of short items.  One is that when you
have waves of different naming schemes that wash over your campus, you can
pretty much tell the age of a server from its name: "Ah, that was from the
artist era!"

Two interesting phases we went through: 1. We named VM host servers after
gardens, and the guest servers on them were named for flowers or plants
that would be found in a garden.  2. We had a Windows sysadmin with
theatre connections, and he started naming servers after characters in
"Waiting for Godot": Gogo, Didi, Lucky, Pozzo.  The problem was when he
needed one more, and he named it, of course, Godot.  I warned him not to
name a domain controller godot, and sure enough, that server was a
disaster!

One last comment I have to make regarding an earlier post: how can you run
out of insects?

This has been fun.  /bat

On Thu, 11 Feb 2010, Julian Y. Koh wrote:

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> At 11:45 AM -0600 2/11/10, Michael J. Wheeler wrote:
> > I wonder if non-edible nuts were considered. For instance: wing(nut),
> > lug(nut), and cage(nut).
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> There actually was a spirited debate (over beer and beer nuts) about
> whether we should expand into that area.  We had just deployed mixed.nuts
> (which everyone was wild about because that terminal server serviced a
> number of different groups of users), and the result was that we decided to
> postpone a final decision until we actually needed another terminal server.
> We never did.  But it was a good debate.  :)
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