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There's a cattle vs pets argument here. When naming "pets", thematic names are nice: Tolkien characters, words-starting-with, deities, elements, plants, animal
by __d 3y ago
There's a cattle vs pets argument here.
When naming "pets", thematic names are nice: Tolkien characters, words-starting-with, deities, elements, plants, animals, etc.
When naming "cattle", schemes that have fairly intricate coded meanings and numerical elements generate things like LDW21-0743 (London, Desktop, Windows, 2021, number 743).
Somewhere between 50 and 100 machines and you need to transition, and it can be surprisingly traumatic.
- amelius 3y agoI named my pet after my neighbor.
- teddyh 3y agoDo you call your neighbor “Human Nigel”¹? 1. https://twitter.com/DawgBelly/status/862786851072909312 https://twitter.com/DawgBelly/status/862786851072909312
- schwartzworld 3y agoWe have a greyhound, and they are closer to cattle than pets at the beginning of their lives. Each dog has a unique combination of numbers tattooed in their ears. Then they are named according to a weird convention where litter-mates share a "first name" while having their own unique "second name". For example, my greyhound was named Del Sol Madison, and she had litter mates with names like Del Sol Martin, Del Sol Maxine, etc. These names are used for identifying the dogs, but they are not trained to respond to them because they aren't pets. Once we got her, we called her Maddie and that's just been her name ever since.
- caseyohara 3y agoMy family adopted a greyhound when I was a kid, was the sweetest dog. His track name was High Tech Kaddy Shack, we called him Kaddy.
- kbob 3y agoThe RFC was written in 1990. Very few computers were cattle then.
- rootbear 3y agoWhen I worked at NASA, I basically did both. We had fixed format official "cattle" names that included the organization code and the computer's inventory number. Those names were useless to humans, so I always also registered a human-friendly "pet" alias. It was a bit more trouble, but it generally worked well. The pet names also has some structure, with prefixes differentiating classes of systems (desktop, server, lab), but they were otherwise free-form and picked to be useful to the users.
- __d 3y agoI've done the same: cattle names for the A record, pet names as a CNAME. Then you get to argue about the PTR record ...