I find dinosaur names to be a fantastic source of weird and wonderful words I once had servers called Muttaburra, Ankylosaurus and Polacanthus, amongst others
_____ From: James Kerr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 14 April 2008 21:54 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Naming convention for Servers We used to name servers after stars but after a while the only ones left were really weird names. The we started with cartoon characters but when a server had the same name as one of the directors another director didn't like that. From now on I will just name them after the asset tags like our workstations. We can quickly lookup the info on any asset tag from our inventory. ----- Original Message ----- From: Greg Mulholland <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: NT System Admin Issues <mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 4:45 PM Subject: RE: Naming convention for Servers Do you do field trips to the zoo when you start to run out? :p From: Damien Solodow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 15 April 2008 1:33 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Naming convention for Servers It depends on how you do it. :-) At my last place, we had well over 50 servers and we still had lots of animals. From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 11:31 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Naming convention for Servers Surely this starts to break down once you have 50-100 (or more servers)? Cheers Ken From: Damien Solodow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 14 April 2008 8:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Naming convention for Servers My preference has always been to use names with some kind of theme (animals, gems, etc) and to make sure they are pronounceable and something that can be spelled. Its much easier to tell the Helpdesk that what theyre looking for is on sapphire then on inusfsrv01 From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 11:07 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Naming convention for Servers Farm animals, now that's funny. Back in the day of Novell servers around here we had one named HAL. On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 9:57 AM, Rankin, James R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Which means you can keep contractors like myself happy by calling your Exchange 2007 server "EXCHANGE2007", instead of UKZZ3242B1 However I quite like the idea of my current company, whose Citrix farm servers are named after farm animals. -----Original Message----- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 14 April 2008 15:53 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Naming convention for Servers Mr. Happy Hacker will defeat this obscurity in about 30 seconds with nmap, or other port scanning tool of choice. On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 7:16 AM, Clayton Doige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > The only reason you might want to stay away from a naming convention is > security. If a hacker gets on your network and can enumerate your servers > they will see E2K3FE or SQL05CRM (for example) and know what they are > hitting, thus making it easier for them to find what they are after. > > > > ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
