Server Names

[Bodo]

The IT staff at work gave the servers real names in order to remeber them easily, when talking about them or connecting to in the network

One is called ENZO, other ones SISYPHUS, DALI, TIGER, WILDCAT, LAMPREDI, ...

I named my computers at home DAVIDBROWN, BULLDOG, RAPIDE, LEMANS

Anyone else got funny names for computers?

[rsvnigel]

Our webservers are called Begbie, Sickboy, and Spud, they live in a co-lo facility in Leith, Edinburgh.

[ErnestM]

Firewall/proxy - Argus (from Greek mythology)

We also have a message leaving PC (a dialer) that the staff calls "the Borg machine"

ErnestM

>> Edited by ErnestM on Saturday 14th June 13:37

[marki]

I named my computers at home DAVIDBROWN, BULLDOG, RAPIDE, LEMANS

quote]

Youare a real Anglophile arn`t you Bodo

[JerryHatTrick]

At home our servers are Picard and Ryker(backup) the pc's are Worf, Troi, and Data. :noTNGsmiley:
All Griffless's idea.

[gopher]

At work we have characters from Black Adder, I believe Percy is the domain controller and Mrs Higgins is the Mail Server...

At home I have tuscan(my machine) and chimera(firewall, file, print and web server)

[Bodo]

marki said:

I named my computers at home DAVIDBROWN, BULLDOG, RAPIDE, LEMANS

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Youare a real Anglophile arn`t you Bodo

It helps me being a PHer

[miniman]

We have Ruddles, Theakston, Guinness, Beamish, Murphys, Fullers and Old Peculiar

[sjg]

My boss (who has a couple of young kids) started off the Disney naming convention that has just stuck. Each site is a film, with servers named after characters - thus at my site there's Aladdin, Jasmine, Jafar, Raja, Genie, Iago and Abu. Other sites have ones from Lion King, Peter Pan, etc. Firewalls tend to be female for some reason.

It is a pain to remember them though - we're well past 20 servers now and it's hard to keep track. Also you start running out of names if you've got several in one place. Boring it may be, but the old abbreviated location+function+number would work much better

At home I've usually got bored of a theme by the time I add another, so I have 5 completely unrelated names...

[victormeldrew]

Fairly sad, I have Phaedra, Stratosphere, Rubycon, Hyperborea, Ricochet. My iPaq is Exit. My printer is Tangram. My p800 is ... just P800 so far.

Tangerine Dream in case you are wondering.

[roop]

We've got Zippy, George and Bungle as our live web servers. Next lot will be Sooty Sweep and Soo

[Bodo]

No-one called his computers TAMORA, GRIFFITH, TUSCAN, CERBERA, CHIMAERA, VIXEN, TAIMAR yet?

[gopher]

I refer the honourable gentleman to my previous answer

[Bodo]

gopher said: I refer the honourable gentleman to my previous answer

D'oh! I must get out more, or at least wipe my monitor from time to time (it has a hard time since I read PH)!

Cheers for your kind remark, gopher

[ErnestM]

I'm waiting for a Great Escape Fan (Thom, Dick and Harry)...

"Oh my God, they've found Thom..."

I guess that would be if it gets hacked...

ErnestM

[zumbruk]

There's an RFC on The Naming of Hosts;

www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2100.html

[Mr E]

I called my cat Tuscan, if that helps.

We have servers called Prost, Senna, Button, Fangio, Moss and Stewart (Button is the most recent).

We used to have a Hill. But it crashed.

(boom boom)

[andyf007]

Previous administration named ours Groucho, Chico, Harpo and Zeppo. When the fifth server came along, I was a little stumped for a name, but I was reassured that there was another brother called Gummo .

As I'm now up to six, I'm renaming using The Lord of the Rings. Got some great passwords and account names too.

Andy

[sybaseian]

Place I used to work at named their servers after Red Dwarf - Holly, Lister, Rimmer, Cat, skutters, etc. When they ran out of ideas, they started naming them after cars. Personally, I prefer to name them after their function and location:-

LONCLU001HP - London Cluster on HPUX
LONWEB001LNX - London Webserver on Linux

And also the application names follow the same naming convention:-

SYBDB001_LONCLU001HP = Sybase database in London on HPUX
ORCDB001_HKCLU001SOL = Oracle database in Hong Kong on Solaris
SYBREP001_LACLU001VMS = Sybase Replication Server in Los Angeles on OpenVMS

[Ali_D]

andyf007 said: Previous administration named ours Groucho, Chico, Harpo and Zeppo. When the fifth server came along, I was a little stumped for a name, but I was reassured that there was another brother called Gummo .

Andy

What about Karl, Richard and Skid?