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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 a

by 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.
  - zumu 3y ago
    I'd like to welcome our newest team member, Cloud Prod!
    - 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.