OT Re: Naming Computers (strategy, and WHY)

From: Huw Davies <Huw.Davies_at_kerberos.davies.net.au>
Date: Wed Oct 23 19:36:00 2002

At 08:05 AM 23/10/2002 -0700, Brian Chase wrote:
>On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Huw Davies wrote:
>
> > I think there's a big difference between what you call systems at home
> > and what you do in your job. At home I don't see a problem with
> > calling a system whatever you like and as I said before, I tend to
> > refer to systems by their function. If I was still naming systems for
> > work (and by inference for lots of other people) it'd be different. No
> > fancy names that only you can remember the spelling of either - it
> > took me a long time to work out why one of the systems at work was
> > called IJFW01 - let's see how long it takes someone to work that one
> > out....
>
>It Just F*cking Works 01?

10 out of 10!

It took me weeks (OK, months) to work out what it meant and in that
period it was painful whenever I tried to telnet in as I just couldn't
work out the hostname!

One other VMS box I look after is called GODOWN. Now this might seem
a very strange name for a VMS box. Apparently the name is short for
GODSOWN (as in God's Own Country) but the six character limitation
for DECnet lead to the shorter name. However, when GODOWN gets clustered
the obvious name for the other node is STAYUP :-)

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