Re: [SAGE] Naming conventions for servers, network gear, etc.

[Brad Knowles <brad@shub-internet.org>]

At 4:28 PM -0500 1/6/07, Rodrick Brown wrote:

>  scsinfpladm01
>  (scs) == Location "Secacus"
>  (inf) == Business Owner in this case "Infrastructure"
>  (p) == Server environment "production"
>  (l) == OS type "linux"
>  (adm) == server function "administrative"
>  (01) == instance number.

I really, really, really hate long hostnames.  Use subdomains if you 
need to, but don't try to have a flat namespace across the entire 
company or the entire world.

And I wouldn't encode the OS into the hostname, either.  See RFC 1178 
(e.g., <http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1178.html>) for reasons why.

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