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I like tying the scheme to the domain. For instance, mine has always been starfleet.mil. Forever non-public domain. Lots of options for host names. (I've never

I like tying the scheme to the domain. For instance, mine has always been starfleet.mil. Forever non-public domain. Lots of options for host names. (I've never been able to figure out a cohesive way to do this for Star Wars.) If you were going for deities, maybe olympus.<something> for Greek gods. Wherever the pantheon is supposed to be homed. Hinduism would give you more host names than you could (probably) ever use...

goodells 3y ago
Your mentioning the pantheon gave me a flashback to how one of my old companies named their non-prod environments. The dev environment services were named after all the Greek gods, and the QA/demo environment services after the Roman gods. It was so horribly confusing…
- TheRealDunkirk 3y ago
  Yeah... I've seen this too. You really have to know your mythology to keep those 2 straight. I'd have made one of them Norse. ;-)
yamtaddle 3y ago
Before I started using zfs and drive names stopped mattering, I'd name my personal storage drives after heroes from the Iliad, and the corresponding backup drives after the heroes' wives.
pimlottc 3y ago
.mil is an valid (restricted) tld [0], and has been for a long time. And while starfleet.mil is still currently unregistered, I wouldn’t be surprised if they changed given recent trends [1]… 0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/.mil https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/.mil 1: https://www.spaceforce.mil/ https://www.spaceforce.mil/
lightspot21 3y ago
Hmm, a similar scheme we used at a previous workplace - lots of references to ancient Greek philosophers, historians and of course deities.
- shrimp_emoji 3y ago
  I wanna try ancient Carthaginians: Hanno, Hamilcar, Hanno, Hannibal, Hanno, Hasdrubal, Hannibal, Hanno, Hannibal, Hanno, Hanno, and of course Hanno
kjs3 3y ago
I'm sure it works fine, but .mil is a real TLD and someone (like the new Space Force or whatever they call themselves) could register it and use it publicly tomorrow. The ".home.arpa" domain is explicitly set aside for 'home' non-public networks in https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8375 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8375.

goodells 3y ago

Your mentioning the pantheon gave me a flashback to how one of my old companies named their non-prod environments. The dev environment services were named after all the Greek gods, and the QA/demo environment services after the Roman gods. It was so horribly confusing…

TheRealDunkirk 3y ago
Yeah... I've seen this too. You really have to know your mythology to keep those 2 straight. I'd have made one of them Norse. ;-)

yamtaddle 3y ago

Before I started using zfs and drive names stopped mattering, I'd name my personal storage drives after heroes from the Iliad, and the corresponding backup drives after the heroes' wives.

pimlottc 3y ago

.mil is an valid (restricted) tld [0], and has been for a long time. And while starfleet.mil is still currently unregistered, I wouldn’t be surprised if they changed given recent trends [1]… 0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/.mil https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/.mil 1: https://www.spaceforce.mil/ https://www.spaceforce.mil/

lightspot21 3y ago

Hmm, a similar scheme we used at a previous workplace - lots of references to ancient Greek philosophers, historians and of course deities.

shrimp_emoji 3y ago
I wanna try ancient Carthaginians: Hanno, Hamilcar, Hanno, Hannibal, Hanno, Hasdrubal, Hannibal, Hanno, Hannibal, Hanno, Hanno, and of course Hanno

kjs3 3y ago

I'm sure it works fine, but .mil is a real TLD and someone (like the new Space Force or whatever they call themselves) could register it and use it publicly tomorrow. The ".home.arpa" domain is explicitly set aside for 'home' non-public networks in https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8375 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8375.