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need good names for servers
DrewKaree:
You should name them after Three Stooges, Seinfeld Characters, cities in america with a population less than 4 million, musical one-hit wonders....and make it as Korn-fusing as possible to make yourself appear to be the one vital human bean the company can't live without, lest they be unable to access any of their computers.
Also, password protect half of whatever would be normal, so they fail often enough to make it appear yet again that they can't live without you, but not so often that they think you don't know what you're doing.
And quit stalking us :o
RetroJames:
--- Quote from: shmokes on March 29, 2005, 11:53:59 am ---Servers should always be named according to context, usually location or department.
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screaming:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on March 29, 2005, 11:42:19 am ---How about you take the useful route and name them for their purposes? I can't stand it when I have to remember a matrix of 45 servers to random names like Himalaya and Bourbon.
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I can't tell you how many times I've seen servers named "notes" and "exchange" end up serving a completely unrelated service, like DNS. What do you do then? And never mind the infosec implications...
I'd rather have a map of all my servers on the wall than have the users complain they have no idea where they're going, or even worse, my deskside people being just as confused.
I started naming my servers after dead rock stars, Until this came up and bit me in the ass when Joplin went up in smoke... ::) :o
-sab
hulkster:
hmmm, all very useful opinions. im not sure i agree with naming them using the indexed idea because that would just get confusing. currently we have the servers named with numbers at the end to identify them, and its confusing, so i want to steer away from that. however im not sure i want to name them something like "FILESERVER and ADSERVER" etc. for fear of someone breaking in too easily. ....hmmm.... ??? ???
ChadTower:
If you're worried about someone from the outside hacking in, you're concentrating your energies on the wrong part of the network.