Comments on: Network Naming Schemes http://pthree.org/2007/08/22/network-naming-schemes/ Linux. GNU. Freedom. Wed, 16 May 2012 07:36:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4-beta2-20489 By: Ideas for Hostnames http://pthree.org/2007/08/22/network-naming-schemes/#comment-115437 Ideas for Hostnames Wed, 16 Feb 2011 23:49:13 +0000 http://www.pthree.org/2007/08/22/network-naming-schemes/#comment-115437 [...] Some of these ideas came from these sites. Potentially related [...] [...] Some of these ideas came from these sites. Potentially related [...]

]]> By: irvin http://pthree.org/2007/08/22/network-naming-schemes/#comment-66462 irvin Sun, 26 Aug 2007 02:14:25 +0000 http://www.pthree.org/2007/08/22/network-naming-schemes/#comment-66462 I use villain names from the cartoon "The Adventures of Jonny Quest". I prefer girl names too! Right now I only have two (melana and anaya) I use villain names from the cartoon “The Adventures of Jonny Quest”. I prefer girl names too!

Right now I only have two (melana and anaya)

]]> By: GliderMike http://pthree.org/2007/08/22/network-naming-schemes/#comment-66360 GliderMike Sat, 25 Aug 2007 08:18:13 +0000 http://www.pthree.org/2007/08/22/network-naming-schemes/#comment-66360 Guns. Lots of guns. I name all of my systems after my guns. Beretta, AR15, Savage308, M1Garand, etc. Guns. Lots of guns. I name all of my systems after my guns. Beretta, AR15, Savage308, M1Garand, etc.

]]> By: Jj http://pthree.org/2007/08/22/network-naming-schemes/#comment-66295 Jj Fri, 24 Aug 2007 19:38:49 +0000 http://www.pthree.org/2007/08/22/network-naming-schemes/#comment-66295 I use bra manufacturers for mine. Freya, Charnos, Panache, Cameo, Berlei, Sloggi, Triumph, Gossard, etc. There are some cool names among those that are not so girly. I use bra manufacturers for mine.

Freya, Charnos, Panache, Cameo, Berlei, Sloggi, Triumph, Gossard, etc.

There are some cool names among those that are not so girly.

]]> By: Jim Cooncat http://pthree.org/2007/08/22/network-naming-schemes/#comment-66238 Jim Cooncat Fri, 24 Aug 2007 10:31:08 +0000 http://www.pthree.org/2007/08/22/network-naming-schemes/#comment-66238 Thank you! I was looking for names people were familiar with, and wouldn't conflict with user names. I was going to use Disney characters, but that has problems: "No, I don't want a computer named Dopey!" Jon mentioned musical instruments, and I like that since there are natural groups. Thin clients = keyboards: piano, spinet, accordian Servers = percussion: bongo, cowbell, cymbal Fat Clients = brass: trumpet, tuba, trombone Virtual Machines = strings: guitar, viola, banjo Routers = woodwinds: flute, oboe, clainet Thank you! I was looking for names people were familiar with, and wouldn’t conflict with user names. I was going to use Disney characters, but that has problems: “No, I don’t want a computer named Dopey!”

Jon mentioned musical instruments, and I like that since there are natural groups.

Thin clients = keyboards: piano, spinet, accordian

Servers = percussion: bongo, cowbell, cymbal

Fat Clients = brass: trumpet, tuba, trombone

Virtual Machines = strings: guitar, viola, banjo

Routers = woodwinds: flute, oboe, clainet

]]> By: Charles http://pthree.org/2007/08/22/network-naming-schemes/#comment-66202 Charles Fri, 24 Aug 2007 03:14:23 +0000 http://www.pthree.org/2007/08/22/network-naming-schemes/#comment-66202 Lord Of The Rings characters are very popular. I lose count of how many aragorn's I've seen, and mordor.local is the ever popular domain name. Here no-one needs to guess what OS runs on smeagol, or what blackgate does... Lord Of The Rings characters are very popular. I lose count of how many aragorn’s I’ve seen, and mordor.local is the ever popular domain name. Here no-one needs to guess what OS runs on smeagol, or what blackgate does…

]]> By: Jon http://pthree.org/2007/08/22/network-naming-schemes/#comment-66178 Jon Fri, 24 Aug 2007 00:37:52 +0000 http://www.pthree.org/2007/08/22/network-naming-schemes/#comment-66178 I currently use the names of movements in the Tai-Chi short form, but have worked at companies where we used the names of heavy metal bands, musical instruments, or cities where we would like to move to. I currently use the names of movements in the Tai-Chi short form, but have worked at companies where we used the names of heavy metal bands, musical instruments, or cities where we would like to move to.

]]> By: Eric TF Bat http://pthree.org/2007/08/22/network-naming-schemes/#comment-66174 Eric TF Bat Fri, 24 Aug 2007 00:02:15 +0000 http://www.pthree.org/2007/08/22/network-naming-schemes/#comment-66174 Back in high school, I named my Macintosh floppy disks after the seagulls in <i>Jonathan Livingston Seagull</i>: Jonathan, Fletcher, Kirk, Sullivan and so on. My VMWare virtual machines tend to be named after superheroes' secret identities, in teams according to OS version -- so Clark Kent, Bruce Wayne and Barry Allen are Windows 2000 VMs, Ted Knight and Karen Starr are Windows 98 VMs, Jean Gray and Kitty Pryde are Linux VMs, and so on. Nowadays, all the computers at home are named after animals, because my house's nickname is The Bestiary, in honour of our many real animals (chickens, cat, dog, rats, etc). Oh, and to be specific: laptops are mythical animals, so mine is Manticore and my wife's is Bonacon. The desktops are real animals, the external hard drives are insects, and the phones are fish. I made lists of potential names. You've got a lot of them there, but I don't see the most obscure one (especially if you're not Australian): Johnny, Sarah Marie, Blair, Ben, Chrissie, Lisa and so on -- they're the "characters" from the first season of Big Brother. Back in high school, I named my Macintosh floppy disks after the seagulls in Jonathan Livingston Seagull: Jonathan, Fletcher, Kirk, Sullivan and so on. My VMWare virtual machines tend to be named after superheroes’ secret identities, in teams according to OS version — so Clark Kent, Bruce Wayne and Barry Allen are Windows 2000 VMs, Ted Knight and Karen Starr are Windows 98 VMs, Jean Gray and Kitty Pryde are Linux VMs, and so on. Nowadays, all the computers at home are named after animals, because my house’s nickname is The Bestiary, in honour of our many real animals (chickens, cat, dog, rats, etc). Oh, and to be specific: laptops are mythical animals, so mine is Manticore and my wife’s is Bonacon. The desktops are real animals, the external hard drives are insects, and the phones are fish.

I made lists of potential names. You’ve got a lot of them there, but I don’t see the most obscure one (especially if you’re not Australian): Johnny, Sarah Marie, Blair, Ben, Chrissie, Lisa and so on — they’re the “characters” from the first season of Big Brother.

]]> By: Scott http://pthree.org/2007/08/22/network-naming-schemes/#comment-66146 Scott Thu, 23 Aug 2007 17:23:19 +0000 http://www.pthree.org/2007/08/22/network-naming-schemes/#comment-66146 I use cities in Missouri. I've had nixa, rolla, joplin, and claycomo. Then I moved to Missouri out of sheer coincidence and now it's hard to talk about things on the network because you get "Wait, are you talking about the computer Nixa or the town Nixa?" I use cities in Missouri. I’ve had nixa, rolla, joplin, and claycomo. Then I moved to Missouri out of sheer coincidence and now it’s hard to talk about things on the network because you get “Wait, are you talking about the computer Nixa or the town Nixa?”

]]> By: Anonymous http://pthree.org/2007/08/22/network-naming-schemes/#comment-66144 Anonymous Thu, 23 Aug 2007 17:14:18 +0000 http://www.pthree.org/2007/08/22/network-naming-schemes/#comment-66144 @mark I was eating, darn it! @mark

I was eating, darn it!

]]> By: nnnnnnnn http://pthree.org/2007/08/22/network-naming-schemes/#comment-66143 nnnnnnnn Thu, 23 Aug 2007 16:54:28 +0000 http://www.pthree.org/2007/08/22/network-naming-schemes/#comment-66143 I prefer Watergate conspirators... sure, some are easy to mistype -- haldeman, ehrlichman, krogh, strachan, etc -- but you also get simple ones like paisley. I prefer Watergate conspirators… sure, some are easy to mistype — haldeman, ehrlichman, krogh, strachan, etc — but you also get simple ones like paisley.

]]> By: Erik http://pthree.org/2007/08/22/network-naming-schemes/#comment-66133 Erik Thu, 23 Aug 2007 14:56:58 +0000 http://www.pthree.org/2007/08/22/network-naming-schemes/#comment-66133 I prefer cocktail names, it is funny and you have a lot of them ... ;-) Greetings Erik I prefer cocktail names, it is funny and you have a lot of them … ;-)

Greetings
Erik

]]> By: Eduardo Padoan http://pthree.org/2007/08/22/network-naming-schemes/#comment-66131 Eduardo Padoan Thu, 23 Aug 2007 14:35:48 +0000 http://www.pthree.org/2007/08/22/network-naming-schemes/#comment-66131 @mark: a scheme that would scale well enough for must networks: stuff you can write with hex number, like DEADBEEF, BADC0FFE, BABEF00D... @mark:
a scheme that would scale well enough for must networks: stuff you can write with hex number, like DEADBEEF, BADC0FFE, BABEF00D…

]]> By: Eduardo Padoan http://pthree.org/2007/08/22/network-naming-schemes/#comment-66129 Eduardo Padoan Thu, 23 Aug 2007 14:28:43 +0000 http://www.pthree.org/2007/08/22/network-naming-schemes/#comment-66129 I used Matrix character names, but for a long time I had only trinity, and had to explain to everyone why would an atheist give such a name to his machine. In the my college, they use the favorite musician of the Intern who configured the machine, like "bbking" and "ironmaiden". I think that my next name scheme will be based on "IT Crowd" characters. I used Matrix character names, but for a long time I had only trinity, and had to explain to everyone why would an atheist give such a name to his machine. In the my college, they use the favorite musician of the Intern who configured the machine, like “bbking” and “ironmaiden”.
I think that my next name scheme will be based on “IT Crowd” characters.

]]> By: Trygve Falch http://pthree.org/2007/08/22/network-naming-schemes/#comment-66122 Trygve Falch Thu, 23 Aug 2007 13:31:51 +0000 http://www.pthree.org/2007/08/22/network-naming-schemes/#comment-66122 Funny nobody mentioned using Pokemon names! Funny nobody mentioned using Pokemon names!

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