Creative hostnames
Robert Hart
drifted on to machine host names. We all came to the conclusion that the
names of the machines we worked with at work all had the most boring
hostnames. For example, the one I deal with is called eri.
Does anyone out there have any creative hostnames for their machines?
Robert
The Milkman
I'm moving into a house with a load of fellow computing students and we have
decided to name our machines with titles from the songs by The Prodigy..
So we've got: VOODOO (main server - filestore, modem server, email), FIRE
(cdrom copying machine cos it "burns" things), JERICHO (workstation),
BREATHE (workstation), CHARLY (big bad dual CPU number crunching/rendering
server), CLIMBATIZE (workstation)., etc
Hostnames at our University go a bit like this: fileservers named after
space shuttles, proxy servers named after birds (eg. osprey, falcon, etc)
etc. Web servers after planets (eg. saturn, neptune). etc. etc. (somthing
like this,,, I think these are correct... not sure)
Personally I always like to start naming machines after planets.. but in a
big organisation like a university it makes sense to have the naming
conventions....
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Robert Billing
> Personally I always like to start naming machines after planets.. but in a
> big organisation like a university it makes sense to have the naming
> conventions....
I've gone over to using Shakespeare, as you get a lot of names, some of
which fall naturally into groups.
192.168.0.2 falstaff A large machine with fat disks
192.168.0.3 antonio Dualtech
192.168.0.4 puck Toshiba Libretto Palmtop
192.168.1.2 peasblossom Virtual Win95 (VMWARE)
192.168.1.3 cobweb Virtual NT *
192.168.1.4 moth Virtual 3.1
192.168.1.5 mustardseed Virtual 98 *
* Don't exist, but the numbers are reserved.
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lover, I live near 0:46W 51:22N. http://www.tnglwood.demon.co.uk/
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phasers on the Heffalump, Piglet, meet me in transporter room three"
Jonathan Baker-Bates
and you can choose them to suit the machine's role (kinda).
We have copeland, czukay, garcia, etc.
JJ
Robert Hart <rob...@sasallys.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:373400B4...@sasallys.demon.co.uk...
David Nutter
> Was in the pub the other night with some friends, and the conversation
> drifted on to machine host names. We all came to the conclusion that the
> names of the machines we worked with at work all had the most boring
> hostnames. For example, the one I deal with is called eri.
>
> Does anyone out there have any creative hostnames for their machines?
Mine are all named after South Park characters.
Cartman: Big fat ugly dual processor workstation
Chef: The fileserver, cos it "serves" things...
Kenny/Twobit[1]: Now a firewall and IPmasquerade box. It dies quite
often, usually in an interesting way, hence Kenny
Skuzzlebutt: My laptop. No particular reason for the name I just
liked the sound of it.
These are all running Debian "Slink" except Kenny who is still running
"Hamm", being only a poor 486en. Precise kernel versions differ
greatly. If I ever buy a new machine for whatever reason it shall be
called "Mephesto" (sp?).
Regards,
-david
[1] The second name is referring to the number of drill bits broken
when removing the case for the first time. Bloody Compaq design
policies... *mutter*
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MJ Ray
[...]
> Does anyone out there have any creative hostnames for their machines?
Well, I decided that our webserver and mailserver machine which would
spend all of its time talking to the outside world would be named
"rabbit" (rabbit, rabbit, talk, talk, etc). However, I'd forgotten
that the powers that be had stuck me with the subdomain "stu", so the
machine name became "rabbit.stu". I only noticed that when a friend
pointed it out to me, honest! The name got past the management
committee (with at least two vegetarians there), though.
Since then we've had veggie.stu, irish.stu, the DNUK-sponsored
beef.stu (serious power ;) ) and if the next few come along while I'm
still in power, I anticipate inner.stu (intranets) and lamb.stu.
The maths department's machines used to be in two groups named after
famous mathematicians and oceans but are now <manufacturer><number>
unfortunately. Computing used to be elements, but there have been
some that break that rule now (parsley?).
--
MJR
http://www.stu.uea.ac.uk/
http://stats.mth.uea.ac.uk/ http://www.anglian.lug.org.uk/
Andrea Fuller
interesting hostnames names at work but, as I am at home I cannot look,
and I cannot remember any more at the moment. Mine is boring - afuller.
I had run out of inspiration that day. ;-)
Andrea
In article <373400B4...@sasallys.demon.co.uk>, Robert Hart
<rob...@sasallys.demon.co.uk> writes
>Was in the pub the other night with some friends, and the conversation
>drifted on to machine host names. We all came to the conclusion that the
>names of the machines we worked with at work all had the most boring
>hostnames. For example, the one I deal with is called eri.
>
>Does anyone out there have any creative hostnames for their machines?
>
>Robert
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Andrea Fuller
Winchester, England
HEDS, FMS and OA
Please excuse any typos or odd phrases. I am talking to the Dragon.
John Winters
Robert Hart <rob...@sasallys.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>Was in the pub the other night with some friends, and the conversation
>drifted on to machine host names. We all came to the conclusion that the
>names of the machines we worked with at work all had the most boring
>hostnames. For example, the one I deal with is called eri.
>
>Does anyone out there have any creative hostnames for their machines?
My main server is called "unseen" partly as a nod to Pratchett, but
mostly because it's hidden behind a desk. My firewall is called "xl5"
obviously.
John
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The Linux Emporium - a source for Linux CDs in the UK
See <http://www.polo.demon.co.uk/emporium.html>
Ian Briggs
:My firewall is called "xl5" obviously.
Careful, John, you're giving your age away... :-)
Ian
Samuel Penn
Robert Hart <rob...@sasallys.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> Does anyone out there have any creative hostnames for their machines?
At Edinburgh University, depending on which computer lab you
were in, either Edinburgh pubs, Scottish islands (trying to
remember how to spell these was fun), dogs (Scooby, Lady, Tramp),
cats (custard, tigger) and elements.
My own Linux box is called Wotan, Risc PC is Odin ad my Windows PC
is Alberich. My Windows PC at work is called Loki. Our sun solaris
server at work was going to be called Ra, but no-one was sure whether
a two letter hostname was allowed, so it became rara.
--
Be seeing you, http://www.bifrost.demon.co.uk/
Sam. ----- Roleplaying and Wargaming
Jon Plews
Robert Hart wrote in message <373400B4...@sasallys.demon.co.uk>...
>Was in the pub the other night with some friends, and the conversation
>drifted on to machine host names. We all came to the conclusion that the
>names of the machines we worked with at work all had the most boring
>hostnames. For example, the one I deal with is called eri.
>
>
Not me, I use fish. I seem to have worrying propensity
toward those beginning with H (Hake, Halibut, Haddock).
Well, maybe it's not *that* worrying.
Jon Plews (dreading being quoted out of context).
Jonathan
I'm lumped with stuE123 for my machine (Uni given name), but the University
has several nameing convensions.
NT fileservers are castles - bodiam, drogo, corfe, knole (is that a castle?)
and UNIX boxes are birds - pelican, falcon, kiwi, stork, merlin (is that a
bird?)
There's also several other names dotted about the network: speke, ward,
wallace, gromit, toucan, scotney, aardvark, ant, aurora, minerva, chartwell,
lark and mercury, to name a few. I've no idea what half of them are!
But the majority of PC's accross campus have boring names like pcecp013 etc.
Jonathan.
--
On the sixth day, God created the platypus.
And God said "let's see the evolutionists try and figure this one out".
Iain Georgeson
>Does anyone out there have any creative hostnames for their machines?
ftp://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/rfc/rfc2100.txt may be able to help:
The Naming of Hosts is a difficult matter,
It isn't just one of your holiday games;
You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatter
When I tell you, a host must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES.
First of all, there's the name that the users use daily,
Such as venus, athena, and cisco, and ames,
Such as titan or sirius, hobbes or europa--
All of them sensible everyday names.
There are fancier names if you think they sound sweeter,
Some for the web pages, some for the flames:
Such as mercury, phoenix, orion, and charon--
But all of them sensible everyday names.
But I tell you, a host needs a name that's particular,
A name that's peculiar, and more dignified,
Else how can it keep its home page perpendicular,
And spread out its data, send pages world wide?
Of names of this kind, I can give you a quorum,
Like lothlorien, pothole, or kobyashi-maru,
Such as pearly-gates.vatican, or else diplomatic-
Names that never belong to more than one host.
But above and beyond there's still one name left over,
And that is the name that you never will guess;
The name that no human research can discover--
But THE NAMESERVER KNOWS, and will us'ually confess.
When you notice a client in rapt meditation,
The reason, I tell you, is always the same:
The code is engaged in a deep consultation
On the address, the address, the address of its name:
It's ineffable,
effable,
Effanineffable,
Deep and inscrutable,
singular
Name.
Iain.
--
The Linux kernel has actually not changed at all since January, '94. Linus
just increments "version.c" once every 48 hours and unleashes the "change"
on an unsuspecting Internet, bringing FTP servers to their knees.
-- Seen on linux-kernel
Anthony Clarke
so there's blackadder, george, darling and possibilities for
melchet, bob, queenie etc. etc.
Anthony,
Matthew Malthouse
jo...@polo.demon.co.uk (John Winters) wrote:
} My main server is called "unseen" partly as a nod to Pratchett, but
} mostly because it's hidden behind a desk. My firewall is called "xl5"
} obviously.
what about "f451" ?
Matthew
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http://www.calmeilles.demon.co.uk/index.html
Matthew Malthouse
Samuel Penn <s...@bifrost.demon.co.uk> wrote:
} My own Linux box is called Wotan, Risc PC is Odin ad my Windows PC
} is Alberich. My Windows PC at work is called Loki. Our sun solaris
} server at work was going to be called Ra, but no-one was sure whether
} a two letter hostname was allowed, so it became rara.
Dunno about SSol, but "al" worked on linux.
"Bong" for the newsserver, gowan, work it out...
Chris Wilson
Around me I have members of the Magic Roundabout, atm Zebedee, Dougal,
Florence and Brian. (In the speck of my eye are Mr Rusty and Emertrude.
Can anyone remember any more of the characters?)
The tiny cluster is boringly called the Hive (predictable, I know. :-(
The computers at my Dad's surgery we named after Thomas the Tank Engine,
with the Big Fat Controller being the server, obviously. Additionally,
the Doctors' computers were named after the engines, whereas the nurses
were named after the carriages and the receptionists ended up with all
the miscellaneous vehicles.
--
Chris Wilson - spam to bit.b...@dev.null
Dougal: 2.2.5 Up: 14 days 17:32 eth0 Rx: 728MiB
Smash forehead on keyboard to continue...
Paul Grayson
> Personally I always like to start naming machines after planets.. but in a
> big organisation like a university it makes sense to have the naming
> conventions....
>
I used to deal with a now almost obsolete NOS under which it was
exceedingly difficult to rename a file server, since it took a competant
person a whole weekend and a spare server to perform the task. We tried
to explain to customers never to name the severs after the company name
or location since either could, and often would, change. We had one site
with 3 servers called London-N, all based in Reading; and one customer
with a server called Exeter based in Plymouth, and a server called
Plymouth based in Exeter!
The manufacturers recommended naming servers after inanimate objects,
such as their example of trees. I can site servers named after poets,
planets and philosphers. One customer even named servers after Captain
Pugwash characters.
The worst cases I came across were cryptic 11 character names based on
departments that no-one could remember (it was part of the civil
service), or on site that used names ranging from Server_A to Server_S.
My linux box is currently called shippo, named after a now gone football
club mascot.
C. Newport
: Was in the pub the other night with some friends, and the conversation
: drifted on to machine host names. We all came to the conclusion that the
: names of the machines we worked with at work all had the most boring
: hostnames. For example, the one I deal with is called eri.
: Does anyone out there have any creative hostnames for their machines?
Mine are a varied bunch :- more on a whim than with a plan.
hek Linux masquerading router - can anyone figure out why ?
linus Linux workstation - how original can you get ?
icarus Ultra5
sol Solaris X86
tosh A portable
mercury Solaris X86 partition on tosh
scone Open server 5
boaz Ruth's workstation
dosser An ancient 386
Neil de Carteret
> I'm lumped with stuE123 for my machine (Uni given name), but the University
> has several nameing convensions.
One of our campus workstation rooms used to full of Sparcs, and thus was
known colloquially as the Sun Lounge (it's been done before, I'm sure). Down
the corridor was similar room known as the Solarium. The Sun Lounge machines
were all named after herbs - dill, borage, parsely etc., and the Solarium
was named after states of mind - happy, sloth, ennui etc.
Anyway, this year the Sun Longe was gutted and refurbished with NT PCs, so
we all have to sit there Exceeding into the teaching servers to get any work
done. Stupidly, the machine names have all been changed to
'pcsl-something-something' to fit in with the campus-wide naming
conventions, thus preserving the now meaningless 'sun lounge' appelation.
Still, it can be slightly amusing to sit at a machine called pcslap or
pcslag.
My own box is known to itself as airwall. *If* I had a network, the other
machines would be shockwave, tremor, etc.
Neil de C.
Paul Wright
Andrew McDonald <ad...@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>Robert Hart <rob...@sasallys.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>> Does anyone out there have any creative hostnames for their machines?
>
>at St. John's when I originally applied for my IP address (although
>this is clearly in contravention of RFC 1178).
How do they feel about aliases? ISTR the Cambridge Debian contingent
used to dish them out. I don't know whether this is still true.
>Since personal machines here are under college subdomains this can
>lead to some fun with naming.
>The best available at John's is probably ban.joh. Selwyn provides some
>of the best names - dura.sel, padded.sel, voltaic.sel, single.sel,
>brain.sel, pick.sel, etc. Peterhouse provides mup.pet. Clare gives us
>intensive.clare.
Churchill had a vague tradition of naming them after the moons of
planets. But it wasn't universally followed. Someone had fuman.chu at
one stage, I think. I vaguely considered ah.chu before deciding it
was too silly. Various people gave them long names like aspidistra or
koyaanisquatsi (means "strange and unusual lifestyle" apparently), for
similar reasons to Douglas Adams' reason for naming Slartibartfast as he
did.
Other possibilties, depending on the number of machines:
Hindu deities (my summer job)
Archangels
Dragons (workgroup at work)
Inevitable sci-fi references (anywhere two or three geeks are gathered
together).
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Matthew Malthouse
Iain Georgeson <ia...@kremlinux.demon.co.uk> wrote:
LOL
} But THE NAMESERVER KNOWS, and will us'ually confess.
Well, sometimes. :)
The Milkman
Paul Grayson wrote:
> <snip>
> I used to deal with a now almost obsolete NOS under which it was
> exceedingly difficult to rename a file server
And what was the name of the obsolete OS? It would be interesting to find out..
Richard Letts
> Was in the pub the other night with some friends, and the conversation
> drifted on to machine host names. We all came to the conclusion that the
> names of the machines we worked with at work all had the most boring
> hostnames. For example, the one I deal with is called eri.
>
names people use to access the machines are boring:
whitworth-A, newton-1, etc
names which people use to access services are simple:
mail.salford.ac.uk, post.salford.ac.uk, etc
names which we use ourselves are lumps of rock:
big systems: gods
little systems: jupiter's lovers
At home I have the Lamps of the Valar, ormal being my laptop :-)
RjL
Keith Sharp
> Robert Hart wrote:
>
> > Was in the pub the other night with some friends, and the conversation
> > drifted on to machine host names. We all came to the conclusion that the
> > names of the machines we worked with at work all had the most boring
> > hostnames. For example, the one I deal with is called eri.
> >
> > Does anyone out there have any creative hostnames for their machines?
> >
> > Robert
>
> I'm moving into a house with a load of fellow computing students and we have
> decided to name our machines with titles from the songs by The Prodigy..
>
> So we've got: VOODOO (main server - filestore, modem server, email), FIRE
> (cdrom copying machine cos it "burns" things), JERICHO (workstation),
> BREATHE (workstation), CHARLY (big bad dual CPU number crunching/rendering
> server), CLIMBATIZE (workstation)., etc
>
> Hostnames at our University go a bit like this: fileservers named after
> space shuttles, proxy servers named after birds (eg. osprey, falcon, etc)
> etc. Web servers after planets (eg. saturn, neptune). etc. etc. (somthing
> like this,,, I think these are correct... not sure)
Well at work we go for: workstations are named after islands, servers from
Greek mythology, routers and switches after train stations, and print
servers after rivers.
Keith.
Andrew McDonald
Paul Wright <paul-...@verence.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> In article <slrn7jbjjl...@adm36.joh.cam.ac.uk>,
> Andrew McDonald <ad...@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> >I'm stuck with my user id for my machine due to the naming rules here
> >at St. John's when I originally applied for my IP address (although
> >this is clearly in contravention of RFC 1178).
>
> How do they feel about aliases? ISTR the Cambridge Debian contingent
> used to dish them out. I don't know whether this is still true.
I think the official view is that these are reluctantly tolerated.
But I think that was after Ian said that he wouldn't remove CNAMEs
even if requested by the machines owners, so there was little they
could do about it.
ucam.org is alive and well, but I've never bothered getting an
additional alias myself. I think ucam-student-run.culture.dotat.at,
or whatever it is, still exists too.
Andrew
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http://ban.joh.cam.ac.uk/~adm36/
Jonathan A. Buzzard
"Jonathan" <jonatha...@hotmail.com> writes:
> Robert Hart <rob...@sasallys.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:373400B4...@sasallys.demon.co.uk...
>
> has several nameing convensions.
> and UNIX boxes are birds - pelican, falcon, kiwi, stork, merlin (is that a
> bird?)
Yep, a Merlin is a bird of prey, smallest of the British falcons. However
they are scare residents or summer vistors.
JAB.
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Jonathan A. Buzzard
Robert Hart <rob...@sasallys.demon.co.uk> writes:
>
> Does anyone out there have any creative hostnames for their machines?
>
I use names from Greek mythology for the machines at work. Mostly Gods,
but a few other characters thrown in for good measure. I could not
resist Cerberus for the firewall for example, and Zeus is always good
for a file server.
The worst thing you can do is use people's names, and if you have lots
of machines a fixed scheme with an abbreviation for a department followed
by a number becomes much more managable.
I always find it useful to put a label bearing the name of the machine
on the monitor.
Michael McConnell
> In article <373400B4...@sasallys.demon.co.uk>,
> Robert Hart <rob...@sasallys.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> >Was in the pub the other night with some friends, and the conversation
> >drifted on to machine host names. We all came to the conclusion that the
> >names of the machines we worked with at work all had the most boring
> >hostnames. For example, the one I deal with is called eri.
> >
> >Does anyone out there have any creative hostnames for their machines?
>
> My main server is called "unseen" partly as a nod to Pratchett, but
> mostly because it's hidden behind a desk. My firewall is called "xl5"
> obviously.
My machine is known to the Net as Eridani (ST and B5 reference in there).
Internally, I have:
192.168.96.1 Zeskia ; Long-standing joke with my gf ;)
192.168.96.2 dustball ; Almost disused 486DX2/66
192.168.96.3 escargot ; My 386DX40. Also gathering dust.
192.168.96.4 startledcat ; Reserved for my new, fast machine.
192.168.96.254 lagbox ; What else do you call an 8086 being used as a
print server? ;)
-- Michael "Soruk" McConnell [Red Hat 6.0 Available!]
Eridani Star System -- The Most Up-to-Date Red Hat Linux CDROMs Available
Email: rhl...@amush.cx http://www.amush.cx/linux/ Fax: +44-8701-600807
MJ Ray
> Jon Plews (dreading being quoted out of context).
Why? It's not like it's sigfile fodder or anything...
--
MJR
--
"Not me, I use fish. I seem to have worrying propensity
toward those beginning with H" --- Jon Plews
MJ Ray
they're computer-generated offensive? Can we outlaw this practice as
cruel to (us|the machines)?
MJ Ray
> Can anyone remember any more of the characters?)
Dylan and the train are the only ones that come to mind. And wasn't
it Ermintrude? Where's »Zen and the Art of Roundabout Maintenance«
when you need it?
Aquarius
>Does anyone out there have any creative hostnames for their machines?
I seem to remember ucc.edu having a server called osaycan :-)
Aq.
aqua...@kryogenix.albatross.co.uk
http://www.kryogenix.albatross.co.uk/
"Gibberish is unintelligible sounds. Even Aq, on a
bad day, does better than that." -- Zubrette, afe
Jon Plews
MJ Ray wrote in message <87ogjtn...@optiplex.localdomain>...
Shit, it does look good as a .sig doesn't it? It would
look better either without my name or with the context-
dread quote in though :-)
Jon Plews.
Dr Alun Moon
>
> Was in the pub the other night with some friends, and the conversation
> drifted on to machine host names. We all came to the conclusion that the
> names of the machines we worked with at work all had the most boring
> hostnames. For example, the one I deal with is called eri.
>
>
I can play around with my machine at home as it's not connected to anything,
Currently it thinks it is
lunar.terra.sol
Unimaginative, I'm looking for a better pun...
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Paul Grayson
>
> Paul Grayson wrote:
>
> > <snip>
> > I used to deal with a now almost obsolete NOS under which it was
> > exceedingly difficult to rename a file server
>
> And what was the name of the obsolete OS? It would be interesting to find out..
>
Banyan VINES.
Although it can still be purchased, it has been 8 months since any
maintenance updates (in its heyday there was a new patch released almost
daily), and Banyan themselves have sold-out to Microsoft, offering plans
to move^H^H^H^H downgrade to NT to all customers.
Carl Windsor
>
> Does anyone out there have any creative hostnames for their machines?
I have just done a "host -l " on my university domain and can
equivocably say "no". God there are some boring people at our
uni :)
Our domain is named after Rusholmes finest, balti, bhuna, tikka,
korma, karahi, vindalo (sic), madras.
We also have a 44 proc machine which we call cerberus after the 2 headed
dog that guards the gates of Hades....quite apt as this is the machine I
do most of my work on :)
Other domains in the uni seem to be named after:
Cars: Vauxhall, cosworth, lambourgini, capri
Painters: kandinsky, monet, dali
Places in the Lake District: Kendal, keswick, coniston, penrith
Characters from sesame street: ernie, grover, oscar
Precious stones: diamond, ruby, saphire, opal, quartz
Characters from the Muppets: kermit, piggy, zoot, fozzie, animal, zoot,
gonzo
But 99% are along the lines of
pc001, pc002, pc003 .....
pc_cluster_001 .....
mark, julie, john, barry ....
admin1, admin2, admin3
windows, linux, winNT, riscos, unix, dos
Yawn
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Jim Farrand
> Mine are all named after South Park characters.
Hey! That was my idea! :-)
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Jim Farrand
> Does anyone out there have any creative hostnames for their machines?
Well, me and my housemates have a LAN, and the boxes are all named after
South Park characters. (Cartman, Kyle, Kenny, Mephesto...)
One of my friends has a similar set up, but they are named after brands
of beer.
At Uni the Unix lab computers are named after Roman emporers.
Richard Cohen
>Robert Hart wrote:
>
>> Does anyone out there have any creative hostnames for their machines?
>
>Well, me and my housemates have a LAN, and the boxes are all named after
>South Park characters. (Cartman, Kyle, Kenny, Mephesto...)
>
>One of my friends has a similar set up, but they are named after brands
>of beer.
>
>At Uni the Unix lab computers are named after Roman emporers.
Home network:
eddie (running as an X-term) - from Hitch-Hikers Guide
bigboy - server
bigblue - an *old* PS/2
coredump - test machine
octarine - Discworld reference
george - my machine, I had to think of a random name when I got it...
deepthought - another Hitch-Hikers fan
palm - assigned IP for my PalmIIIx
kernel-panic - another test box
Work machines:
scoplus4 (and any other word with sco in it)
pestle
wool
weasel
begbie (and other Trainspotting names)
tyne (and other rivers)
Uni machines (Liverpool Comp. Sci.):
world rivers (jordan, danube, amazon...) - student machines
seas of the moon (tranquility...) - staff machines
oceans (atlantic, pacific...) - file servers
Cheers
Richard
James Fidell
When I was working at Netcom we named one group of hosts after Arthurian
characters; another after the seven deadly sins (not too scalable, that
one :) and another after breweries.
Others I've used in the past are curries and indian dishes and characters
from books, but I vetoed the names of the '66 England world cup squad.
James.
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David Damerell
>Paul Wright <paul-...@verence.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>Andrew McDonald <ad...@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>>>I'm stuck with my user id for my machine due to the naming rules here
>>>at St. John's when I originally applied for my IP address (although
>>>this is clearly in contravention of RFC 1178).
>>How do they feel about aliases? ISTR the Cambridge Debian contingent
>>used to dish them out. I don't know whether this is still true.
>I think the official view is that these are reluctantly tolerated.
>But I think that was after Ian said that he wouldn't remove CNAMEs
>even if requested by the machines owners,
_if_ he felt the request was made not because the owner wanted it removed,
but because of pressure from the CS. Basically, it was intended to give
the owner of a machine with a ucam.org address plausible deniability;
"look, I asked Ian to remove me and he wouldn't".
My personal favourite is oh.jesus.cam.ac.uk.
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lo...@my.sig
: Was in the pub the other night with some friends, and the conversation
: drifted on to machine host names. We all came to the conclusion that the
: names of the machines we worked with at work all had the most boring
: hostnames. For example, the one I deal with is called eri.
: Does anyone out there have any creative hostnames for their machines?
Here at Keele, we have Frodo, bilbo and sam...
I've called my personal linux box Rincewind...
:)
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: NT fileservers are castles - bodiam, drogo, corfe, knole (is that a castle?)
: and UNIX boxes are birds - pelican, falcon, kiwi, stork, merlin (is that a
: bird?)
Small bird of prey, IIRC.
: There's also several other names dotted about the network: speke,
Place near Liverpool
ward,
Part of a hospital, or area in UK elections???
: wallace, gromit,
You must know these.
: toucan,
Errr... That's a bird.
: scotney,
<shrug>
: aardvark,
Anteater.
: aurora,
Lights in the sky above the poles.
: minerva,
A godess... Wisdom???
chartwell,
<shrug>
: lark
Another bird.
and mercury,
Runny metal.
:)
: to name a few. I've no idea what half of them are!
You do now.
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: Just to add a little more noise...
: Around me I have members of the Magic Roundabout, atm Zebedee, Dougal,
: Florence and Brian. (In the speck of my eye are Mr Rusty and Emertrude.
: Can anyone remember any more of the characters?)
Well... There was Buxton, the blue cat.
(from the feature length episode called "Dougal and the Blue cat"...)
A must see, if you've not seen it yet.
There was also Dillon (the stoned rabbit). How could anyone forget him?
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lo...@my.sig
: The Linux laptop is kororaa (the smallest penguin), up to Emperor (an old
: PERQ running PNX), and Jackass (which was my old AT&t 3B1). The Suns are
: Gentoo and Adelie. The old Whitehchapels were Magelanic and Chinstrap, but
: they've since left home.
Hows about naming the next new one "Feathers-McGraw"?
Ronny Adsetts
>Was in the pub the other night with some friends, and the conversation
>drifted on to machine host names. We all came to the conclusion that the
>names of the machines we worked with at work all had the most boring
>hostnames. For example, the one I deal with is called eri.
>
>Does anyone out there have any creative hostnames for their machines?
>
Where I used to work, we had characters from Only Fools and Horses: dell;
rodney; trigger; and Rodneys Wife who's name eludes me at the moment. You
may have noticed that dell has two l's, well that was how it started - no
imagination, the machine was a Dell!
My slowly growing home network has hosts named after 'heroes' from Sci-Fi
books: arthur (Hitch Hikers) and jettero (Mission Earth). I'm still trying
to decide the name of the next machine, which will be a Linux fileserver.
Ideas welcome.
TTFN,
Ronny
lo...@my.sig
: My slowly growing home network has hosts named after 'heroes' from Sci-Fi
: books: arthur (Hitch Hikers) and jettero (Mission Earth). I'm still trying
: to decide the name of the next machine, which will be a Linux fileserver.
: Ideas welcome.
How about "Wowbagger the infinately prolonged"?
:)
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Ronny Adsetts
>In his obvious haste, Ronny Adsetts <ronny....@btinternet.com> babbled
thusly:
>: My slowly growing home network has hosts named after 'heroes' from Sci-Fi
>: books: arthur (Hitch Hikers) and jettero (Mission Earth). I'm still
trying
>: to decide the name of the next machine, which will be a Linux fileserver.
>: Ideas welcome.
>
>How about "Wowbagger the infinately prolonged"?
>:)
Pratchet I assume? (not read any ... yet!) I thought of using 'Jonny Goodboy
Tyler' but the thought of typing 'ping jonny-goo....' made me go dizzy just
with the thought of the effort involved!!
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David Nutter
> David Nutter wrote:
> Hey! That was my idea! :-)
Eh! I kick you in the *nuts* :)
I shouldn't think our respective LANs will ever meet though...
Regards,
-david
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Simeon
<lo...@my.sig> wrote in message news:7h6tnb$mud$6...@cfs2.kis.keele.ac.uk...> : Was in the pub the other night with some friends, and the conversation
> : drifted on to machine host names. We all came to the conclusion that the
> : names of the machines we worked with at work all had the most boring
> : hostnames. For example, the one I deal with is called eri.
>
> : Does anyone out there have any creative hostnames for their machines?
>
Hmm, here's writing from Gandalf, to be processed by the mail/newsserver
(Gollum). Frodo looks after my father's work, and Bilbo is currently
unattached from the LAN.
Simeon (hoping the formatting will work today)
Matthew Malthouse
lo...@my.sig wrote:
} How about "Wowbagger the infinately prolonged"?
Ha! That should be reserved for the "upgrade" nws server for which I have
been begging for the last 2.5 years.
Had one sex of Linux boxen named for characters in "Citizen Smith" - the
sysadmin of the moment showing his age. :)
Matthew
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Iain Georgeson
<ja...@cloud9.co.uk> writes
>Oh well, might as well join the thread...
Indeed. Whatthahell.;)
Bob knows why I've still got these zone files - I'm the only one on the
network at the moment. But there you go...
;
; /var/named/elv-net.hosts
;
;
; Origin is elv.net
@ IN SOA anchovy hostmaster (
1999032600
86400 ; refresh: 1 day
3600 ; retry: 1 hour
3600000 ; expire: 42 days
604800 ; minimum: 1 week
)
NS ns
MX 10 mail
TXT "One word: Walrus"
mongoose A 192.168.14.11
HINFO INTEL-386 WIN32
TXT "Have that, you dog!"
RP paul.moose mongoose
MX 10 moose
moose A 192.168.42.1
HINFO INTEL-386 LINUX
TXT "Moose. Making lard for Elvet since
yesterday"
RP stu.moose moose
WKS 192.168.42.1 UDP SUNRPC BIFF TALK
NTALK
WKS 192.168.42.1 TCP ECHO DISCARD
SYSTAT DAYTIME NETSTAT CHARGEN FTP TELNET SMTP TIME FINGER POP3 SUNRPC
AUTH IMAP2
lard CNAME moose
flood A 192.168.42.11
HINFO INTEL-386 WIN32
TXT "Good album, SysVinit?"
RP stu.moose flood
WKS 192.168.42.11 UDP TALK
MX 10 mail
JIM CNAME flood
anchovy A 192.168.69.1
HINFO INTEL-386 LINUX
TXT "Anchovy, the .Sigaquarium, Elvet."
RP hostmaster.anchovy anchovy
WKS 192.168.69.1 UDP SUNRPC DOMAIN
NTALK TALK SYSLOG WHO BIFF
WKS 192.168.69.1 TCP IMAP2 NNTP AUTH
SUNRPC POP3 FINGER DOMAIN TIME SMTP TELNET FTP CHARGEN QOTD NETSTAT
DAYTIME SYSTAT DISCARD ECHO SHELL LOGIN
mail A 192.168.69.1
ns A 192.168.69.1
rootns A 192.168.69.1
hack A 192.168.69.1
services A 192.168.69.1
ftp CNAME services
www CNAME services
acmhost CNAME services
news CNAME services
nntphost CNAME services
nntptoaster CNAME services
nntpheffalump CNAME services
heffalump CNAME services
syslog CNAME services
ongar CNAME services
imaphost CNAME mail
imaptoaster CNAME mail
smtphost CNAME mail
smtptoaster CNAME mail
pop3host CNAME mail
pop3toaster CNAME mail
quit CNAME Use-exit-you-lardmonster
Use-exit-you-lardmonster A 127.0.0.1
localhost A 127.0.0.1
As you may have guessed - I was bored. And while I'm at it.
;
; /var/named/root.hosts
;
; Hack to stop Netscape wingeing.
;
; Origin is .
@ IN SOA anchovy.elv.net. hostmaster.elv.net. (
1999011001
360000 ; refresh: 100 hrs
3600 ; retry: 1 hour
3600000 ; expire: 42 days
360000 ; minimum: 4 days
)
NS ns.elv.net.
www.durge.org CNAME hack.elv.net
www.papercourt.org.uk CNAME hack.elv.net
internic.net CNAME hack.elv.net
help.netscape.com CNAME hack.elv.net
home.netscape.com CNAME hack.elv.net
home4.netscape.com CNAME hack.elv.net
home6.netscape.com CNAME hack.elv.net
home7.netscape.com CNAME hack.elv.net
home8.netscape.com CNAME hack.elv.net
home10.netscape.com CNAME hack.elv.net
home11.netscape.com CNAME hack.elv.net
home13.netscape.com CNAME hack.elv.net
home17.netscape.com CNAME hack.elv.net
home24.netscape.com CNAME hack.elv.net
home25.netscape.com CNAME hack.elv.net
home26.netscape.com CNAME hack.elv.net
home27.netscape.com CNAME hack.elv.net
The joys of Linux and a spare named... ;)
Iain.
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just increments "version.c" once every 48 hours and unleashes the "change"
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Robert Hart
>
> Does anyone else find site-wide naming conventions that look like
> they're computer-generated offensive? Can we outlaw this practice as
> cruel to (us|the machines)?
The problem is they can get really convoluted. Trying to remember if it
is hash squiggle, or squiggle hash...
It gets worse when they start messing with "-"'s and "_"'s.
Going back to the machine at work; if I could, I would rename it to
grandma - 'cos its about 10 years old and always seems to take ill when
I want to go on holiday!
Robert
Ian Rutson
Hmm.. when I was there some of the names were going. Two points:
1. How does 'muser' fit into the naming pattern
2. Are the creatively named sparcs still there? ccw201, ccw202 etc..
Personally, my machines are called after Teletubbies:
Server: Homehill
Main w/station: Dipsy
Print server: Po
Spare box Lala
CD Player Tinkywinky
Computer at office that sometimes comes home to play: Noonoo
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The Milkman <ric...@rocketmail.com> wrote in message
news:37349BCC...@rocketmail.com...
> Robert Hart wrote:
> Hostnames at our University go a bit like this: fileservers named after
> space shuttles, proxy servers named after birds (eg. osprey, falcon, etc)
> etc. Web servers after planets (eg. saturn, neptune). etc. etc. (somthing
> like this,,, I think these are correct... not sure)
Paul Martin
>Well at work we go for: workstations are named after islands, servers from
>Greek mythology, routers and switches after train stations, and print
>servers after rivers.
Similar here. The Lerwick office has mainly island names for all the
machines, the NOC has mainly rivers in the Greater Manchester A-Z, and
railway/tram stations, tech support currently have a Snow White (server)
and the seven dwarves (workstations) theme, with a few odd names around --
eg. my workstations are thingy and dunno.
- What's your workstation called?
- Dunno.
- But it's *your* workstation. What did you call it?
- Dunno.
- Surely you must know the name of your own workstation?
- Dunno.
etc. etc.
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Tony Mountifield
And Mr McHenry (sp?)
> And wasn't it Ermintrude?
Yes, it was. When Demon Internet were young, they had a router called
"cow", originally meaning "centre of world". A while later it was
replaced by a pair of routers, and "cow" became "ermin" and "trude".
Cheers,
Tony
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David Nutter
> Similar here. The Lerwick office has mainly island names for all the
> machines, the NOC has mainly rivers in the Greater Manchester A-Z, and
> railway/tram stations, tech support currently have a Snow White (server)
> and the seven dwarves (workstations) theme, with a few odd names around --
> eg. my workstations are thingy and dunno.
<snip>
Perhaps someone should name their machines after London tube
stations. Then we can use the diagram to play Mornington Crescent...
Regards,
-david
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Jim Farrand
> > Hey! That was my idea! :-)
> Eh! I kick you in the *nuts* :)
Screw you guys... I'm goin 'home!
ObLinux:
What should I set my domain name to? At the moment it set to
south.park, but should I set it the same as my ISP? (cartman.bris.ac.uk
isn't nearly as good as cartman.south.park.)
Matt Sergeant
>
> Does anyone out there have any creative hostnames for their machines?
This is a kinda funny thread, so I add my 2p to the barrel...
Mine are named after comedy TV characters, primarily Father Ted and The
Young Ones...
dougal
ted
jack
vivian
neil
rick
mike
... Sad, but it keeps me amused... jack shouts "Feck!" on logon...
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Robert Billing
> What should I set my domain name to? At the moment it set to
> south.park, but should I set it the same as my ISP? (cartman.bris.ac.uk
> isn't nearly as good as cartman.south.park.)
I've been experimenting here. The new setup (alternative boot, not in
service yet) has this machine as falstaff.tanglewood and my laptops as
antonio.tanglewood and puck.tanglewood, and the VMware virtual 95 as
peasblossom.tanglewood. My ISP expects me to be tnglwood.demon.co.uk.
Apart from having to set the host name explicitly for sendmail, I
haven't had any problems.
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phasers on the Heffalump, Piglet, meet me in transporter room three"
Robin Stevens
I know its owner - he was very pleased to get that one past TPTB :-)
In my department we have alpha stars for Alpha workstations, and Scottish
islands (a popular choice for names it seems) for PCs/X terminals. Some of
the names get quite obscure, eg Zubenelgenubi, Bubblybuss, Barrelofbutter
and my own workstation Mucklegreenholm. I'm pleased to have managed to see
the last two in Orkney last summer, but I've yet to locate Bubblybuss on a
map.
My IBM laptop is little-blue, referencing both its manufacturer and
a song title, while I'm posting from a server named after the college's
founder, Walter de Merton.
But at least among hosts in Oxford, Maths must win on the grounds of sheer
surreality, with the "vegetable-emotion" series (recently mentioned in New
Scientist):
cabbage-fear, potato-shock, tomato-drive, broccoli-war, onion-enigma,
pea-virtue, mushroom-love, pepper-glee, courgette-rage, pumpkin-anger,
jicama-boast, fennel-faith
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s...@remove.drogna.spam.force9.co.uk
> In article <slrn7jdprk...@nodonn.cloud9.co.uk>, James Fidell
> <ja...@cloud9.co.uk> writes
>>Oh well, might as well join the thread...
> Indeed. Whatthahell.;)
> Bob knows why I've still got these zone files - I'm the only one on the
> network at the moment. But there you go...
[Hosts files]
I recognise those. In fact I still use a bastardised form of them. These
days there's actually a few more machines on my version of elv.net.
moose - My workstation
riffraff - nntp, pop3 and http srver, and masquerading dialer
flood - moose in windows
weevil - My housemate's linux box
mongoose - His box in windows
freezer - a visiting laptop, also known as booboo
tilda - My girlfriend's laptop
romana - My girlfriend's 486, and first machine on my new naming scheme
(Dr Who's assistants)
Oh and I'm also going to build a beowulf cluster called wintermute some
time in the summer, while a friend of mine builds it's partner, called
neuromancer.
Stu
--
From the prompt of Stu Teasdale
You will visit the Dung Pits of Glive soon.
MJ Ray
> The worst thing you can do is use people's names, and if you have lots
> of machines a fixed scheme with an abbreviation for a department followed
> by a number becomes much more managable.
Aren't subdomains ideal for indicating departments? Then the machines
can have their dignity back and have proper names. If you want to
number them, use the dotted quads.
--
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http://www.stu.uea.ac.uk/
http://stats.mth.uea.ac.uk/ http://www.anglian.lug.org.uk/
Matthew Malthouse
Robert Hart <rob...@sasallys.demon.co.uk> wrote:
} It gets worse when they start messing with "-"'s and "_"'s.
/scream/ DNS and EtherShare... Had scads of hosts with "_" in their name
only to discover that new and upgraded systems wouldn't accept that, only
"-".
Can't remember which bit was most at fault, must confes to burying my head
in the sand at the time and waiting until someone else fixed it. :/
Alex Butcher
>Oh well, might as well join the thread...
>
>characters;
But how *did* you spell the name of the Arthur's wizard mentor?
Myrddin or Merlin?
> - Lazarus Long | James Fidell
Best Regards,
Alex.
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Michael McConnell
> What should I set my domain name to? At the moment it set to
> south.park, but should I set it the same as my ISP? (cartman.bris.ac.uk
> isn't nearly as good as cartman.south.park.)
You could always go for 'ike.bris.ac.uk' ... that particular episode is
coming in the next few weeks on Ch4, IIRC.
-- Michael "Soruk" McConnell [Red Hat 6.0 Available!]
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Keith Sharp
> In article <373400B4...@sasallys.demon.co.uk>,
> Robert Hart <rob...@sasallys.demon.co.uk> writes:
> >
> > Does anyone out there have any creative hostnames for their machines?
> >
>
> I use names from Greek mythology for the machines at work. Mostly Gods,
> but a few other characters thrown in for good measure. I could not
> resist Cerberus for the firewall for example, and Zeus is always good
> for a file server.
Can we start a sub thread on how many people have a firewall called
cerberus?
I can start the ball rolling with a "me to"!
Keith.
The Milkman
> Hmm.. when I was there some of the names were going. Two points:
>
> 1. How does 'muser' fit into the naming pattern
It doesn't. Muser is an alias. The actual hostname is kite (to fit in with the
bird theme).
> 2. Are the creatively named sparcs still there? ccw201, ccw202 etc..
If you mean the ones down in the computer centre... no, they're not. They have
been replaced byt PII/233's running NT. I think the stations are now in the
department of computing running as X-Terminals in the main Unix lab.
> Personally, my machines are called after Teletubbies:
I have a friend at Birmingham University and the main servers in the comp. dept
are tinkywinky, lala, dipsy and po!
--
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James Fidell
<news...@cocoa.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> On 10 May 1999 14:04:36 GMT, James Fidell <ja...@cloud9.co.uk> wrote:
> >Oh well, might as well join the thread...
> >
> >When I was working at Netcom we named one group of hosts after Arthurian
> >characters;
>
> But how *did* you spell the name of the Arthur's wizard mentor?
>
> Myrddin or Merlin?
I would have used myrddin, but since other people had to have access to
the machine as well, and it's helpful if they can spell it... :)
James.
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James Fidell
> Can we start a sub thread on how many people have a firewall called
> cerberus?
>
> I can start the ball rolling with a "me to"!
Or "Janus" as an alternative...
James Fidell
<matthew....@guardian.co.uk> wrote:
> In article <373740E0...@sasallys.demon.co.uk>,
> Robert Hart <rob...@sasallys.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
> } It gets worse when they start messing with "-"'s and "_"'s.
>
> /scream/ DNS and EtherShare... Had scads of hosts with "_" in their name
> only to discover that new and upgraded systems wouldn't accept that, only
> "-".
>
> Can't remember which bit was most at fault, must confes to burying my head
> in the sand at the time and waiting until someone else fixed it. :/
The "_" character isn't valid in domain names, though certain nameservers
are somewhat lax about enforcing the rule.
George Poulson
> I would have used myrddin, but since other people had to have access to
> the machine as well, and it's helpful if they can spell it... :)
You should be so lucky..
we have machines here at work called "craigellachie" and "bruichladdich"
(amongst many other totally forgettable and impossible to spell names
derived from Scotch whiskies)
George
Paul Black
The completions in tcsh are very useful ...
Paul
John Winters
>> of machines a fixed scheme with an abbreviation for a department followed
>> by a number becomes much more managable.
>
>Aren't subdomains ideal for indicating departments? Then the machines
>can have their dignity back and have proper names. If you want to
>number them, use the dotted quads.
This is one of my pet hates - names within a structured naming system
which try to repeat the structure within part of the name. Thus
accounts' file server at Acme inc ends up being called:
accountingfsacme.accountingacme.acme.co.uk
Don't get me started.
John
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Anahata
>But at least among hosts in Oxford, Maths must win on the grounds of sheer
>surreality, with the "vegetable-emotion" series (recently mentioned in New
>Scientist):
> cabbage-fear, potato-shock, tomato-drive, broccoli-war, onion-enigma,
> pea-virtue, mushroom-love, pepper-glee, courgette-rage, pumpkin-anger,
> jicama-boast, fennel-faith
>
These are superb and they comply with the recommendations in RFC 1178
"Choosing a Name for your Computer" as I remember:
- names should be memorable, pronounceable and easy to spell (that
definitely rules out Zubenelgenubi)
- they should be related as a family of some sort (OK, in this case two
separate families)
- there should no be a hard limit to the number of members in your
'family'. You never know how big your network might get one day, so
Teletubbies and Snow White's seven dwarfs pose obvious limitations. With
enough research, I suppose you can always find a really obscure Norse or
Greek deity after you've used up the obvious ones, but the search gets
harder each time the network expands.
As an amateur musician, I'd choose names of composers, if I ever get to
set up a network like that. With this in mind, my experimental Linux
box at work is Stravinsky, but much of the rest of the network is the
Starship Enterprise staff list set up a trekkie colleague who has now
left.
Anahata
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George Poulson
> > we have machines here at work called "craigellachie" and "bruichladdich"
> The completions in tcsh are very useful ...
Not considering that the vast majority have non-un*x systems on their
desks:
| C:\> ping bruc^Hice^Hhladd^Hdish^H^Hh
|
| Bad IP address bruichladdish.
Fortunately those of us who currently administer the DNS have a more
sensible attitude than did those who dreampt up the ludicrous names ...
| C:\> ping bruce
|
| Pinging bruichladdich.....
| C:\> ping craig
|
| Pinging craigellachie....
Where would we be without CNAMES ? :-o
George
(who can't help thinking that this thread is getting a bit off-topic)
Anahata
>Does anyone out there have any creative hostnames for their machines?
[in reply to the whole thread that followed...]
I hope you good people have all read RFC1178 "Choosing a Name for Your
Computer"
I won't reproduce it in full here, but as this topic has created so much
interest I'll summarize with the section headings, starting with what
*not* to do:
Don't overload other terms already in common use.
Don't choose a name after a project unique to that machine.
Don't use your own name.
Don't use long names.
Avoid alternate spellings.
Avoid domain names.
Avoid domain-like names.
Don't use antagonistic or otherwise embarrassing names.
Don't use digits at the beginning of the name.
Don't use non-alphanumeric characters in a name.
Don't expect case to be preserved.
Use words/names that are rarely used.
Use theme names.
Use real words.
Don't worry about reusing someone else's hostname.
There is always room for an exception.
Explanations for all these are in the full text of RFC1178, of course.
Well worth a read, and quite serious in intent.
Phil Day
> drifted on to machine host names. We all came to the conclusion that the
> names of the machines we worked with at work all had the most boring
> hostnames. For example, the one I deal with is called eri.
>
> Does anyone out there have any creative hostnames for their machines?
>
The trouble with most common themes is that they run out quite quickly
(charaters from a cartoon series, etc) or are a bit geeky (Greek gods,
etc).
I think the best set I every used were bird names - in some cases we let
the users come up with thier own ideas and you can tell a lot about the
people who ask for "Hawk", "Eagle", "Dove", "Owl", etc. I took
particular
delight in assigning "Tit", and giving someone "Thrush" - but maybe
that's
just me. We also tried to used "Dodo" for the IBM mainframe - but the
SysOp
wouldn't have it.
For the networked printers we used tree names.
Phil.
Ronny Adsetts
<37394F0D...@cfm1020.NOSPAM.x400.icl.co.uk>...
>Paul Black wrote:
<snip>
>George
>(who can't help thinking that this thread is getting a bit off-topic)
But entertaining all the same :¬)
Ronny
Robert Billing
> - there should no be a hard limit to the number of members in your
> 'family'. You never know how big your network might get one day, so
That's why I go for Shakespeare, Tolkien or CS Lewis. How about Wither,
Frost and Alcasan[1] for the M$ machines? Any really prolific author
will do.
[1] The baddies in Hideous Strength.
Nix
> Personally I always like to start naming machines after planets.. but in a
I use nasty gods; loki exists, odin will shortly, kali and shiva are
held in reserve for future boxes :)
esperi (the firewall) is an old red giant in Banks's book _Excession_,
and means `sunset' in Greek. Quite apt for a nine year old 486, in the
sunset of its life.
--
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r...@greenend.org.uk
> I would have used myrddin, but since other people had to have access
> to the machine as well, and it's helpful if they can spell it... :)
I spent a long time as a user of a machine called myrddin, never had
any trouble typing it. OTOH the owner of said machine reported having
difficulty pronouncing it...
The worst we ever had at work was unkecheguapoosepatuk, which I have
almost certainly spelt completely wrong. It lasted a few days before
being renamed to something more sensible.
The naming scheme we use started out as Indian tribes, but more
recently we've used African and European ones too. Not all of these
score very highly for pronounciation (the staff being largely
unfamiliar with non-European languages...) but they are mostly
memorable, and there's a very large selection to choose from.
My own machines at home, on the other hand, are mostly named from Jack
Vance's fiction (sfere, lyonesse, tsais). I also have an NCD X
terminal called "portaloo" for reasons that are now opaque to me.
Other machines with names under greenend.org.uk belong to various
different people and so follow unrelated naming schemes.
r...@greenend.org.uk
> This is one of my pet hates - names within a structured naming
> system which try to repeat the structure within part of the name.
> Thus accounts' file server at Acme inc ends up being called:
>
> accountingfsacme.accountingacme.acme.co.uk
>
> Don't get me started.
A friend of mine works for a company that I'll refer to as XYZ, and
all of the machines have names of the form xyzABC.xyz.co.uk, where ABC
encodes the type of hardware and a serial number. He (the friend in
question) has been trying to introduce a little sanity in naming since
he started there...
Bill Hay
>characters; another after the seven deadly sins (not too scalable, that
>one :) and another after breweries.
>
You forgot the eighth deadly sin: Microsoft.
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<c...@NOSPAM.netunix.com> writes
>hek Linux masquerading router - can anyone figure out why ?
>linus Linux workstation - how original can you get ?
>icarus Ultra5
>sol Solaris X86
>tosh A portable
>mercury Solaris X86 partition on tosh
>scone Open server 5
>boaz Ruth's workstation
>dosser An ancient 386
>
Probably best to keep Icarus a safe distance from Sol
Best regards,
Lou........
MJ Ray
> This is one of my pet hates - names within a structured naming system
> which try to repeat the structure within part of the name. Thus
> accounts' file server at Acme inc ends up being called:
> accountingfsacme.accountingacme.acme.co.uk
> Don't get me started.
Care to shout at some people for me? UEA policy for staff machine
names is:
<dept-code><user-initials><number>.<dept-code>.uea.ac.uk
and deviations are not allowed unless you expressly write in the "CPC
staff use only" part of the form *and* have a department IT support
officer who they don't want to mess with. So worst of all worlds, in
other words.
Even funnier is the computing service's staff machines. They changed
department code from CPC to ITCS, so they have machines named
itcs<user><number>.cpc.uea.ac.uk
which is just absurd! Come back eris.uk.linux.org, all is forgiven ;)
Andrew Savory
> Even funnier is the computing service's staff machines. They changed
> department code from CPC to ITCS, so they have machines named
> itcs<user><number>.cpc.uea.ac.uk
What's REALLY annoying is that it's another character to type. So oddly
enough, most of my /etc/hosts files have the old-style name in them...
Andrew.
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Robin Stevens
> definitely rules out Zubenelgenubi)
The idea behind Zubenelgenubi was that the name *should not* be any of
those things. At the time of arrival it was the most powerful machine by
some margin, and the idea was to make it a little harder for people to use
it :-)
Me? I happen to know that the CNAME "zub" is registered ;-)
And Iain A F Fleming <ia...@spider.com> wrote:
> The entity calling itself Robin Stevens wrote:
> > My IBM laptop is little-blue, referencing both its manufacturer and
> > a song title,
> Little blue is also the coloquial (English) name for the "Eudyptula
> Minor" species of penguin, also known as Kororaa (Maori).
Wow! Nice coincidence. Not just for Linux reasons, but because I also
like penguins ;-) My desktop machine has to make do with a Tux badge, a
toy penguin on top and a penguin sticker on the monitor. I don't think
many penguins inhabit the small island of Muckle Green Holm.
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Andy Leighton
>My own machines at home, on the other hand, are mostly named from Jack
>Vance's fiction (sfere, lyonesse, tsais).
But no wankh eh?
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David Nutter
> One of our campus workstation rooms used to full of Sparcs, and thus was
> known colloquially as the Sun Lounge (it's been done before, I'm sure). Down
Not bad; we generally call ours "The Spod Pits".
> Anyway, this year the Sun Longe was gutted and refurbished with NT PCs, so
> we all have to sit there Exceeding into the teaching servers to get any work
> done. Stupidly, the machine names have all been changed to
> 'pcsl-something-something' to fit in with the campus-wide naming
> conventions,
Boo. It is annoying when they do that, because 'doze machines seem to
be so unreliable (surprisingly). Conversely the Solaris boxen we have
(mainly IPCs and IPXs with a few Ultras) run continuously and they run
cool, which is more than can be said for the NT boxes. These turn any
room fitted with them into a hot, sweaty and deeply unpleasant place
to work. Give me the nice keyboards and huge big monitors of a unix
workstation any day...
Regards,
-david
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Richard Senior
: Was in the pub the other night with some friends, and the conversation
: drifted on to machine host names. We all came to the conclusion that the
: names of the machines we worked with at work all had the most boring
: hostnames. For example, the one I deal with is called eri.
When I did a Solaris training course at Sun (and this was about 7 years
ago, so I may recall the extact names incorrectly) they had servers
called Curry and Rice. The workstations were called Vindaloo, Korma,
Naan, Madras ...
Maybe they dreamt up their names in the pub too?
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Regards,
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London, England
Mail: richard at r-senior dot demon dot co dot uk
JustinC
[snip]
>
>: scotney,
>
><shrug>
Whaddya mean <shrug>? Scotney Castle - 'cept it isn't really a castle
its an old country pile with nice gardens (if a little small) run by NT
(that is National Trust - nothing to do with the boy Gates)
>
>
>chartwell,
>
><shrug>
Bloody hell what are you like?
Kent I do believe, once the home of Winston Churchill IIRC.
There's another idea for computer names: British PM's
Characters from the Jungle book?
My server is arthur and I have zaphod, ford, trillian, marvin and
agrajag as workstations.
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JustinC
<l...@powderly.demon.co.uk> writes
I love techie jokes :)
Richard Corfield
James Fidell <ja...@cloud9.co.uk> wrote:
>
>The "_" character isn't valid in domain names, though certain nameservers
>are somewhat lax about enforcing the rule.
Some spambots seem to be having fun with the - in my email address.
I've reveived spam for richardnews, richard and news.
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Nix
> we have machines here at work called "craigellachie" and "bruichladdich"
One of the machines here (behind the firewall, so not subject to the
needs of public DNS naming) is called cuchulainn.tirnanog...
AfghanHound
>
> Was in the pub the other night with some friends, and the conversation
> drifted on to machine host names. We all came to the conclusion that the
> names of the machines we worked with at work all had the most boring
> hostnames. For example, the one I deal with is called eri.
>
>
> Robert
Try dead musicians, e.g elvis, since 'ping elvis' will
return with 'elvis is alive', etc.
Round here, we have:
snoopy: My PC, mail/news/print/file server to the masses.
woodstock: 396 with g/f's BBC B/portable B/W TV as its
serial console.
lucy: g/f's 486DX2 (Compaq portable[1])
Wasn't this thread on alt.fan.pratchett about two weeks ago?
Afghan
[1] Not laptop: portable. With a handle on top.
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Paul Black
> Wasn't this thread on alt.fan.pratchett about two weeks ago?
It's been on some comp.unix.* (I think) newsgroups recently and it got
very boring very quickly on them as well.
Paul
Stuart
> Engineering Science building, had servers named Heath and Robinson, and all
> the workstations was named after dead engineers - Brunel, Telford, Gresley,
> etc.
Ditto for Durham Uni's Engineering dept. The 6 HP workstations were
called: Brunel, Parsons, Clements, Swan, Whittle and Telford. Sadly
they're destined to go and be replaced by suns named after (top marks for
originality here) suns (stars).
Stuart.