David Wright wrote: > On Thu 15 Feb 2018 at 09:38:06 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 01:40:17PM -0000, bolaki...@mail2tor.com wrote: >> > * i did not find a map, a table about that. > > There are several lists of "most popular" hostnames. I guess they're > dominated by servers, and often they're aliases, like www, rather than > the name of the machine(s) offering the service. > Even allowing for that, I would imagine that there are server farms > where most of the hostnames are systematically generated, meaningful > names rather than the memorable names that we ornery folk would use. > In spite of that, planets and suchlike always do well.
For customer deploys, I like a variation of CLLI codes, based on customer name (I do contract work sometimes) -- so having CMPY[STE]DEV## So when say a switch at Cool-Widgets, LLC. bites the dust, the monitor will email with something like "CLWTWHSW01" (Cool Widgets Warehouse, Switch 01). -- |_|O|_| Registered Linux user #585947 |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O| PGP: 05CA 9A50 3F2E 1335 4DC5 4AEE 8E11 DDF3 1279 A281