People do this with system hostnames a lot. And it's almost impossible to get them to stop: the hostname should either be a random UUID or a random name from a

People do this with system hostnames a lot. And it's almost impossible to get them to stop: the hostname should either be a random UUID or a random name from a pronounceable list depending on scale (or a syllabic UUID thing). Because every other factor has one answer: you look up the other data you need in your CMDB. If that's too hard, you fix that so it's easy (DNS TXT records can be surprisingly useful here).