I've always felt that at a minimum servers deserve real names. The first naming convention I saw was on my first Unix account, SunOS boxes in CS at University of Hartford, named after movie computers (hal, skynet). At a previous job, we had HP-UX servers named after characters in Johnny Quest (race, bandit, hadji, etc) and Sun servers named after 70s/80s detective show characters (columbo, baretta, mannix, magnum). I've seen planets, stars, constellations, and Greek or Roman gods used a lot.
> > > At a previous job, we used Simpsons characters. I remember the > nameservers were ITCHY and SCRATCHY, and the firewall was WIGGUM. One > benefit to using visual source material is you can print images of the > characters and tape them to the machines. :) > When I worked at DSL.net, we named all of our servers after beer or breweries. The benefit of that source material is you can steam the labels off of bottles and put the labels on the servers (well that, and we had a rule for awhile that we couldn't use a name if someone in the group hadn't had the beer). We had machines like ottercreek, chimay, bud, fosters, tooheys, papercity (a printer), oldnick (the workstation of a guy named Nick). My favorite was our backup server, although technically called backup01, it had the beer label for Magic Hat's Blind Faith on it. I still keep the tradition alive today. I have a number of Linux infrastructure VMs named for Lovecraftian places (dunwich, arkham, dreamlands) -Shawn
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