What to name network components. I was thinkin planets but seems soo common.

thespeakerbox

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Setting up bunch of servers recently, so I was gonna rename stuff according to a theme. I was thinking planets, but it's soo old. Any ideas?
 

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Name them after Galaxies... their designation or after the Messier catalog... for example Andromeda = M31 so call one of the things M31 (or just use galaxy names because his 103 objects were numbered 1-103 I think)
 

thespeakerbox

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Who are some famous dead jews? lol

Some other ideas:

Fruits
Cuts of Meat
Countries
The Mob - I.E ( Vinny, Tony , Carmine) - Might offend some....i guess :D
 

kedlav

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Artists
Songs
vehicles
pr0n stars
food
gods (which works great regionally... Roman breakdown for NA, Greek for EMEA, Hindu for ASPAC)
 

sdifox

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Character names from a book you like. I go with Hitchhiker's Guide :)
 

rivan

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Originally posted by: adagar121987
Street Fighters!

:thumbsup::thumbsup:

I've been naming mine after martial arts people for years - the original was my PII "Bruce_Lee".
 

Aikouka

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I name mine based on the processor :eek:. My current machine is C2D-E6600, my old machine is A64-X2-4400, my old-old machine is A64-2800... just hope you don't always build machines using the same processor :laugh:.
 

Thraxen

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Originally posted by: HamburgerBoy
Originally posted by: George P Burdell
Greek mythology

Or better yet, Roman mythology!

We have a mix of all kinds of mythology (greek, roman, norse, etc...) at one site, and beer names at one of our remote sites.
 

mooglekit

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Now I know where all the ideas for server names came from where I'm working :confused:

At home, they're all fine, but at work...I wish they could just pick a friggin standard and stick with it...how am I supposed to know <<useless funny name here>> is a Solaris host in Phoenix at first glance???

That said, if you must do this type of thing, I'm all for naming servers after politicians. That way, when I don't like what they're doing I can just turn off their power.