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Overloading the names? Classifications as functional groups? Um. Ok. That's, um, interesting. If you start with chemical names and hit the limits of the co
by Hoff 16y ago
Overloading the names? Classifications as functional groups?
Um. Ok. That's, um, interesting.
If you start with chemical names and hit the limits of the complexity that permits, are you going to move onward to molecules? Wait for Ununbium to be renamed Copernicium? What's next, molecular host names within the hydroxyl group are assigned to management?
If you're going to use a "corporate-style" naming scheme for your hosts, then just encode whatever it is you want to convey into the host name. Location or whatever.
Or just select random names.
Having the IP address encoded in the name strikes me as particularly problematic, too. Hosts and subnets and VLANs tend to come and go, and names and VLANs and address assignments tend to shift.
And naming based on physical locality is an increasingly quaint concept in the era of virtualization and client mobility.
After a while, most any naming scheme will prove insufficient or will unravel, so why not just have an eye toward the likelihood of distributed management and (increasing) complexity from the onset?
Seems better to spend your time getting (for instance) SNMP and DNS records configured and working for all your boxes, and less time making (more) work for yourself with explaining and maintaining complex host name schemes.
- Jach 16y agoAs the article states: "I admit this naming convention is more for the massive nerd factor than practicality. If you have more than about 20 machines, just give them numbered hostnames and be done with it."
- JoeAltmaier 16y agoSeems like this extends to domain names too. SO why even have an address bar at the top of the browser? What will replace it?
- Hoff 16y agoMany browsers have two text input boxes. In more than a few places, a Google search string (or the browser's search input box) is the already the preferred contact path; not the URL. What might replace URL-based navigation more widely, I don't know. We went from ARPA not all that long ago to the Big Seven to however many dozens of TLDs we have now. We'll certainly find out, as the URLs are increasingly hideous, and we're just a few years into this current naming structure. There are certainly potential business opportunities here, too. Approaches to better solve a distributed planetary-scale address book than "just" based on a domain name, and better than a brute-force search engine.
- JoeAltmaier 16y agoYes, I've wanted an "authoritative" directory of web pages for some time. Every since Yahoo gave up on it, I've had to learn clever ways to tease the right pages out of google. How about a search engine that ALWAYS returns the canonical page for any techinical/commercial/copyright/patented term FIRST! Instead of somebody's dog named "rfq" or a car for sale by a gal from Concordance, OR.