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I don't buy this logic. Renaming machines is a pain, and they inevitably end up with more/different stuff on them than was originally intended, then your "help
by blibble 13y ago
I don't buy this logic.
Renaming machines is a pain, and they inevitably end up with more/different stuff on them than was originally intended, then your "helpful" name like pukweb01 (production, uk, web, 01) is worse than "pikachu" (as it's incorrect).
the correct way to do this is to give the machine a name with no meaning (maybe pikachu, maybe box005) and have a list of the services running on each machine, and use DNS for those (say www1/ns1 that CNAMEs to the actual hostname).
personally, I'd argue that anyone that calls machines things like "pukweb01" has had little to no experience with a rapidly evolving system...
- philwelch 13y agoIf you're repurposing the machine anyway you might as well totally wipe and reprovision it, right?
- gmjosack 13y agoDefinitely. But why add the overhead over updating DNS/DHCP?
- count 13y agoTo always start with a clean environment. Who knows what crud is leftover. A new job for a machine calls for a new OS install/etc.
- lmm 13y agoEven if both are automated, a full OS reinstall is slower than just installing a new service.