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A few maybe. But when you have 50 routers, 60 switches, and 10 firewalls, then it's not exactly fun to need to start thinking about if this name is latin or gre
by knorker 5y ago
A few maybe. But when you have 50 routers, 60 switches, and 10 firewalls, then it's not exactly fun to need to start thinking about if this name is latin or greek, and how exactly do you even spell it?
Your laptop? Barely matters. Won't show up in a traceroute.
- kayodelycaon 5y agoI tend to keep the chaos at higher levels of abstraction. All of my home automation devices have printed labels with a number. (I have way too many.) The same number goes on the device name in Home Assistant. If one of the remotes ends up in the wrong room, it’s easy to look up where it belongs. However, the internal applications I maintain at my day job have fun, easy to spell names. The servers they go on are prefixed with that name with their function after it. e.g.“snowplow db”. Everyone knows (or learns) that snowplow is the custom UI for the big SNP printers. I’ve found having a name that’s short and relatively related in some way keeps different departments from coming up with their own shorthand way of referring to the programs.