pick a fucking name

[rone]

So, we used to have an incredibly obnoxious and cumbersome naming scheme, where the first letter was either S for system or N for network, then a four-digit location code, which started with 1 for East Coast and Europe and 2 for West Coast and Asia-Pacific. Then a 3-letter code that gave a vague hint regarding the machine's function or model, then a 2-digit serial number. Thus, s2009mgw06 is the sixth mail gateway machine at location 2009 (our current colo).

The new and improved naming scheme is: one letter, P for production, D for development, Q for QA; a two-digit location code; a mandatory 3-letter, "vague hint" code; an optional 3-letter supplementary code; and a 2-digit serial number. Thus, p01dnsi03 is the third 'i'nternal DNS server at location 01 (the new colo).

Someone explain to me how the latter is an improvement. I really, really loathe this.

Comments

[dr-memory.livejournal.com]

Beat them over the head with a copy of this (ftp://blank.org/pub/misc/art_of_automounting.ps). It was a stupid idea 15 years ago; it's a stupid idea now.

[denshi.livejournal.com]

How is this better than the old "each network admin uses [his|her] favorite fantasy series or constellation" naming system?

Where the hell do you work?

[jbroughton.livejournal.com]

Remember how long it took for us to get used to the S&N naming scheme? And how we fought it tooth and nail? Then we got used to it...now look what they did to ya'all.

Aaah, the beauty of working in a small hick town with nothing to worry about but a bunch of drunk hicks on the weekends.

Somebody never heard of

[vardissakheli.livejournal.com]

RFC 1178 (http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1178.html)? Me neither.