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The RFC is long obsolete. The world changed a lot since 1990.

• teddyh 3y ago
  All the things which the RFC recommends against are still all bad practices, for reasons which have not changed. Modern server “cattle” style naming, which I assume you have in mind, is actually explicitly mentioned as a reasonable idea in the RFC text.
  • dale_glass 3y ago
    Some can be ignored in modern times. Eg, nothing wrong with naming the webserver simply "web". Particularly in modern times where it's going to be a VM/container, and never do anything else. Also nothing wrong with naming your laptop after yourself. Laptops weren't much of a thing in 1990, these days everyone at my company has their own. And seeing a login or packets on tcpdump from "bob.example.com" is very much helpful.
    • NoZebra120vClip 3y ago
      That's all well and good until you hire Web and Dev.
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        • kjs3 3y ago
          Reminds me of https://xkcd.com/327/ https://xkcd.com/327/ and Little Bobby Tables.
    • JohnFen 3y ago
      > nothing wrong with naming the webserver simply "web" Until you have more than one webserver.
• mcv 3y ago
  A big thing that changed is that host names aren't part of email addresses anymore.