it's not even the right name

[rone]

Really, the wiki host should've been called library-of-babel, but that's an unwieldy hostname.  aleph would've been better suited to the monitoring host, but that one has the boring sjl-monitor1 moniker, as it's a production machine.

I've had my issues with naming hosts before.  Even though the sane choice is to go with the boring but practical scheme for the production systems, it still feels like i'm giving up a fundamentally fun part of my job.

I'm also occasionally toying with the idea of changing my journal's name (and have been for a couple of years).  I keep coming up with cool names that unfortunately are not representative of, well, me.

Comments

[rbarclay.livejournal.com]

All of our production machines have sane names (like Illuin, Kafka and so on), the visible stuff is just a matter of creative use of CNAMEs.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

That's an alternative i've considered but never implemented, mostly because i couldn't be arsed...

[rbarclay.livejournal.com]

I find it easier to talk about (or ssh into) kafka than having to remember if it's called dns1, ns1 or was it just ns.

I also trained the colleagues at our biggest customer to just add another CNAME every time they can't remember a machines real name (which'd be something like sheakkesa01). Some of those boxes have over 20 CNAMEs now, but at least they never get it wrong, not even when the pager goes off at 3am.