On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Bill Barrett wrote:
> personally I am rather fond of using names that are easy to remember but > really wouldn't mean anything to people outside. For example my old > employer used names of mountains. it was easy for us to remeber the names > and associate them to what they were because they were things like Ranier > rather than"al-8723-bls.foo.com" but would mean little to those outside > the company. I've worked at several companies over the years, and each place had it's own method of doing it. The most recent former employer used airport codes to identify the location and then an acronym or abbreviation as to what the equipment was for the external customer network. When that didn't prove cryptic enough they decided to move to CLLI codes, which confused everyone including the people responsible for the equipment. The enterprise network followed their own naming convention. At the company before that, where I had sole naming rights as the Sr. Admin, I chose a straighforward naming approach. SMTP1 was the first SMTP server, SMTP2 was the secondary, and so on. We also did a lot of work to insure the host security of all boxes, running as many necessary daemons as possible as unprivileged accounts and chroot jailing where applicable to minimize damages in case someone came calling and the services were exploitable. The company before that named all their hosts after various items from A Clockwork Orange, mostly from the Korova Milk Bar, though other themes were used as well when names started running short. These machines were then CNAME'd to their various applications, and host security was kept in check by a great group of sysadmins. At the company before that it was also a straightforward naming convention mixed in with Star Trek names, i.e. Uhura and Spock for the news reader and feeder machine names. And the first company I worked for after College named all their machines after greek/roman gods except for the web server, which was named Spyder. -- Joseph W. Shaw II - CCNA Former Sr. Security Specialist: Enron Broadband Services Please hire me before I resort to a life of crime, panhandling, or Amway.
