What are good server naming conventions?

[spyordie007]

Originally posted by: Stark
adding servers (plural) to your apartment? what the heck are you doing in an apartment that requires adding multiple servers?

Well since you asked:
2000 AD Domain
IIS (http, ftp)
MS Exchange (smtp, imap, pop, instant messaging, web-based interface)
File Server
Lotus domino server (with Sametime)
Windows Media Server
etc. etc.

Plus I use the domain to test a host of things that I dont feel comfortable testing on the network at my office.

-Spy

 

[Legendary]

Greek letters maybe? Probably been doing though

alpha.domain.com
beta.domain.com
etc.

 

[Stark]

Six servers in an apartment? Wow...

 

[narzy]

porn1.server.com
porn2.server.com
warez1.server.com
mp3z.server.com .

VIVA LA IP!

 

[ChefJoe]

NMR-FAM at wisc.edu (Madison, Wisconsin) named all their computers/servers with the names of breeds of cow (holstein, etc... I really don't know that many cow varietals). If in hollywood area, you could use the technical name for various plastic surgeries.


In Oregon, I'd use the names of various famous tree-hugging hippies.... but I digress.

 

[spyordie007]

There are allot of good breweries around here, perhaps I should use their names...
Widmer, Henrys, etc...

 

[phatcow]

ad1.domain.com
ad2.domain.com
ad3.domain.com

 

[Vinny N]

Hey how about chess pieces?

King
Queen
Bishop
Knight
Rook
Pawn

or maybe chess openings?
though plenty are escaping me at the moment...
KingsIndian
QueensGambit
StarCross
HyperModernist
TheSicilian

 

[vash]

Mountains and rivers are good, there are so many, you can't run out of 'em easily. For home, why not planets? Sun is an easy one for the main server, but unless you gonna have a lot of machines, our solar system should be fine.

vash

 

[n0cmonkey]

cenobites:
pinhead
chatterer
butterball
engineer
chatterer2
channard
terri
camerahead
barbie
cd
jp

etc. Im moving to this one soon though...

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

How about soft-drink names?

MountainDew
VanillaCoke
Dr.Pepper
...etc


Or names of alcoholic drinks

TequilaSunrise
Oasis
SlipperyNipple
...etc

 

[Jugernot]

We use characters from Lord of the rings to name our servers:

Gollum
Gandalf
Frodo
Pippin
Elrond
Sauron
Wendigo
Riverdell
and a few more....

Edit: BTW, not that it matters, but this naming scheme was implemented years ago.... long before the movie came out.

 

[Soybomb]

Where I work now we have some matrix names
ie: neo, morpheus, trinity, etc

Gods are good: ie: hades

If its a large installation through cute names become a pain and its worth it to just have mail1.domain.com etc for servers and perhaps a location description for workstations such as adm2137 for pc 37, in room 21 or the administative building.

Almost forgot when I started with my web host they were using greek letters, they've moved into other alphabets now with over 300 servers check out this list of names

 

[bizmark]

a friend of mine has Santa's reindeer: rudolph, donner, blitzen, etc.

I'm using the moons of Jupiter: Ganymede, Europa, Io....

other suggestions (I didn't read the whole thread so I don't know if they've been suggested already)

-Greek/Roman gods (maybe you could even have two subdomains, one with Roman gods and one with Greek gods)
-Cookie brands (Oreo, ChipsAhoy, Milano, etc.) (could extend to other types of food)
-Cities in your favorite state, region, country, etc.
-Streets in your neighborhood/town

 

[Cyberian]

Originally posted by: ViRGE
We use wines for filesevers:

Merlot
Pinot
Riesling
Vineyard(we couldn't think of another wine that could be spelt easily)

Ripple
Thunderbird
MD 20-20

 

[TallBill]

Viper GTS .... did you ask for naming conventions or was it a nerd competition?

btw, i'd go for the periodic table.. definitly the dorkiest

 

[Gunbuster]

Yoyodyne Employees (Red Lectroids)

John Barnett
John Bigboote
John Camp
John Careful Walker
John Chief Crier
John Cooper
John Coyote
John Edwards
John Fish
John Fledgling
John Gomez
John Grim
John Guardian
John Icicle Boy
John Jones
John Joseph
John Lee
John Littlejohn
John Many Jars
John Milton
John Mud Head
John Nephew
John Nolan
John O'Connor
John Omar
John Parrot
John Rajeesh
John Ready to Fly
John Repeat Dance
John Roberts
John Scott
John Smallberries
John Starbird
John Take Cover
John Thorny Stick
John Two Horns
John Whorfin
John Wood
John Wright
John Ya Ya



Freedom Loving Forces (Black Lectroids)

John Balook
John Emdall
John Gant
John Parker

 

[geoff2k]

One installation I was visiting used swear words in foreign languages.

I name our boxes whatever my favorite animated character is at that particular moment.

 

[ultimatebob]

Wow. I'm still trying to figure out why you would need both a Lotus Domino server and an Exchange server in your apartment! What's wrong, can't decide what mail client you like better?

Anyway, I name my home computers by their dedeeming features. Like, if one of them was purple, I'd probably call that one "grape". Or, If one of them had dual processors, I'd call that one "dualie" or "twins". Or, if one of them looked like a refrigerator or a coffeemaker, I'd probably call them that. That way, visitors can figure out why you named them that way.

 

[DaveJ]

We have tons of naming schemes where I work.... the 7 dwarves, birds of prey (Condor, Falcon, Raptor, etc.), philosophers, some ST:TNG ones, but I personally use astronomy and star constellations.... I have Lyra, Cygnus, and Orion so far...

I like the Bond villain idea though, gotta steal that one!

Dave

 

[spyordie007]

Originally posted by: ultimatebob
Wow. I'm still trying to figure out why you would need both a Lotus Domino server and an Exchange server in your apartment! What's wrong, can't decide what mail client you like better?

Anyway, I name my home computers by their dedeeming features. Like, if one of them was purple, I'd probably call that one "grape". Or, If one of them had dual processors, I'd call that one "dualie" or "twins". Or, if one of them looked like a refrigerator or a coffeemaker, I'd probably call them that. That way, visitors can figure out why you named them that way.

I use the domino server for Sametime (not the mail capabilties).
I'm in the process of moving over to all exchange and soon I will not run the domino server at all, as much as I hate MSN messenger it runs good on an exchange server and integrates with AD whereas the Lotus Domino server does not. You know how much users like to have multiple passwords for the same orgainization...

We are entirely over to Exchange at my work, however there are a bunch of people who still use the domino server I have at home for sametime. In my humble opinion Sametime is the best instant messaging server/client out there, however it just doesnt integrate with an AD.

-Spy

 

[spyordie007]

Originally posted by: DaveJ
We have tons of naming schemes where I work.... the 7 dwarves, birds of prey (Condor, Falcon, Raptor, etc.), philosophers, some ST:TNG ones, but I personally use astronomy and star constellations.... I have Lyra, Cygnus, and Orion so far...

I like the Bond villain idea though, gotta steal that one!

Dave

we use bond names for all our servers at work, we use the villans from the movies.
drax, mrbig, oddjob, bunt, mishka, grishka, dent, zorin, kaufman, jaws, plenty more....

I like the bond convetion the best however it would be confusing to have the same names in both places.