@Gavin, +1 on removing profanity.
This bug is not as much about creating "memorable" machine names. It's just about creating machine names that one can pronounce. It's really hard and ugly to say, "Hey Gavin, can you SSH into sdfknz?" Versus, "Hey Gavin, can you check port 80 on sidewalls?" It's just as nasty to talk about ec2-204-236-254-96.compute-1.amazonaws.com or 06913234-d127-46bb-85eb- 13d8fa8d0022.openstack. We can do better in MAAS! 73K words should be plenty enough in my mind. However, we should safely handle overage. There are a few simply options here. After exhausting all of those words, just start combining them, like $word1-$word2. 73K*73K is about 5 billion. Or just go random or enumerate after that. +1 on creating a curated list of words from some good wordlists. Something with a couple of thousand words would be fine. I'm happy to pull this together, as long as we generally agree with the goals and the goodness of it :-) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to maas in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1287224 Title: MAAS random generated hostnames are not pronounceable To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/maas/+bug/1287224/+subscriptions -- Ubuntu-server-bugs mailing list Ubuntu-server-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server-bugs
