At the north end of last Friday's beer meeting, there was a discussion about server naming conventions. I opined the names of 7 dwarfs works only until you get an 8th server. I've heard of using the elements from the periodic table (bonus: use each element's atomic number for the ip address). Robert likes to use names of nuclear disaster sites (something about a Sun box named Chernobyl that eventually blew up). But it seems to me that "ssh threemileisland" is a lot to type every time you need to login remotely. So, what are the desirable qualities for names? - large address space - memorable - easy to type (short) - easily spelled (unambiguous) To that end, I proposed using common names of animals. To keep the names short, I'd like to use no more than 3 characters. This lead to a brain storming session to come up with at least one 3 letter name for every letter of the alphabet. We didn't find names for all 26 letters, but that's not one of the above requirements. Ursula seemed to have a knack and came up with most of the following. ant, ape bat, bee, bug, boa cub, cow, cat, cod doe, dog emu, egg, eel, elk, ewe fox, fly gar, gnu hog, hen i-- jay koi, kid l-- man nit owl pig, pug q-- ram, rat, roe, ray sow tux (not a "real" animal?) u-- v-- w-- x-- yak z-- It was further proposed the router could be named "vet" and the dns might be called "zoo." == Craig A. Smith mailto:craig.a.smith at honeywell.com Office 763-954-2895 Cell 612.518.2200 FAX 763-954-2313 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list