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do as i say... (lemmy.ca)

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Harry Potter characters is a perfectly reasonable server naming scheme. Server names should be easily recognisable but not tied to any particular service/project/function on that machine (as the server may be used for other things later etc)

See RFC 1178: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1178

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

August 1990

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

So?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Don't act like the internet isn't built on RFCs that old