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First rule of running a farm: don't name your animals. You'll get too emotionally attached when it comes time to put them down. Yes it's funny and cool et ceter
by aristus 13y ago
First rule of running a farm: don't name your animals. You'll get too emotionally attached when it comes time to put them down. Yes it's funny and cool et cetera. But, and I say this with love and twenty years' experience, for fucksake: take the time to plan a sensible ontology and stick with it. Hostnames should describe the purpose, capabilities, and disposition of your assets. Nothing more and nothing less.
- paul_f 13y agoThis approach "Hostnames should describe the purpose, capabilities, and disposition of your assets" requires you to rename your servers when you repurpose them. And that's an equally bad idea.
- aristus 13y agoNah, renaming during a reprovision is fine. You gotta stuff that information somewhere, and it might as well be in the name of the thing. Also remember that a machine / IP address can have as many alternate names as you want in the DNS system.