Comment on What host names do you use?

bigDottee@geekroom.tech ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• dan@lemmy.i.secretponi.es ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  After a long career in tech, one of the things I start to push for when I inevitably take over ops at my new job is to eliminate the silly names.

  I don’t do it because I hate fun, I do it because when someone yells, “Squirtle has dropped off the network!” I don’t want to have to go consult a lookup table to learn that Squirtle is a staging environment postgres replica and not the primary billing database.

  As a result, I apply the same standards to my home network without shame.

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  • med@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s the right move.

    I tell you, the first time you’re sat in front of a CEO and an auditor and you have to explain why the big list of servers has a highlighted one called C-NT-PRIK-5 is when the fun stops.

    Explaining that it’s short for ‘customer network tester Mr. Prickles 5’, and is actually a cacti server never really seems to help the situation.

    At least a few of the customers got a laugh out of it being on the reports!

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    • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I just read this as:

      you’re sat in front of a CEO the fun stops.

      Agreed. Lol

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