[26991] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SERVER NAMES
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gregory A. Carter)
Thu Feb 3 17:54:19 2000
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 14:49:45 -0800 (PST)
From: "Gregory A. Carter" <omni@dynmc.net>
To: Patrick Greenwell <patrick@cybernothing.org>
Cc: Steve Dispensa <steve@mwis.net>, DeepBlue <james@darkblue.net>,
nanog@merit.edu
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Patrick Greenwell [Re: SERVER NAMES] 2.2.2000
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. Not picking on you in particular, but isn't one of the greatest advantages
. to having DNS to offer *meaningful* names to machines(assuming anything
. other than a home network?)
.
. It's nice to be able to go in to a company and see machines named "www1,
. www2, mx1, mx2" etc. which offer some indication as to their purpose
. rather than "maverick, foozlebutt, blarg", etc. which offers no such
. indication. I know it isn't as fun, but it certainly seems to be much more
. useful (IMO of course...)
You're not alone here I was wondering the same thing. The company I work
for and the company I run privately both use naming schemes in the form
of:
[CITY]2[STATE]2[PURPOSE]2[ASSET #][PRIMARY SECONDARY - IF NT]
Example:
NACAMX01B
We know this server is in Napa, California, it's a mail server, the first
one and it's a backup domain controler for an NT network.
Just a though folks :)
Greg
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