Just in case anyone is wondering about their interesting choice of hostnames, they are very Greek in origin – somewhat appropriate for Geeks. > Scylla and Char

Just in case anyone is wondering about their interesting choice of hostnames, they are very Greek in origin – somewhat appropriate for Geeks. > Scylla and Charybdis were mythical sea monsters noted by Homer. [...]Scylla was rationalized as a rock shoal (described as a six-headed sea monster) on the Calabrian side of the strait and Charybdis was a whirlpool off the coast of Sicily. They were regarded as maritime hazards located close enough to each other that they posed an inescapable threat to passing sailors; avoiding Charybdis meant passing too close to Scylla and vice versa. According to Homer's account, Odysseus was advised to pass by Scylla and lose only a few sailors, rather than risk the loss of his entire ship in the whirlpool. [0] This is distinct from the Hydra, which was a land based multi-headed beast, and guarded an entry to the underworld. [1] So, OpenSSH thinks that you have to brave the seas to fight your demons on land. Seems apt, I think. (As an aside -- ``To be swept from Scylla to Charybdis'' is a (predominantly somewhat upper-class) British expression beloved by lawyers [e.g. [2]] meaning "caught between a rock and a hard place", and sometimes found in the formal judgements of some of the highest courts in the world, e.g. the ECJ ruling about whether or maintenance failures for airlines count as 'extraordinary' -- and therefore outside of the scope of the compensation legislation -- or not. It was found that they are 'part and parcel of an airline's operation'. I found this out as a teenager, when suing EasyJet for compensation I was owed. I won.) [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Between_Scylla_and_Charybdis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Between_Scylla_and_Charybdis [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lernaean_Hydra https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lernaean_Hydra [2] https://europeanlawblog.eu/2013/12/09/the-recent-landmark-cases-on-the-reasonable-time-requirement-is-the-court-caught-between-scylla-and-charybdis/ https://europeanlawblog.eu/2013/12/09/the-recent-landmark-ca...