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[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (17 children)

Also, can somebody explain this to sysadmins when it comes to naming computers?

I mean programmers can have some weird naming conventions, but I've never met an adult professional programmer who named all his variables after planets or Harry Potter characters or just called everything stuff like ADMUTIL6 or PBLAB03T1 or PBPCD1602.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (3 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 9 months ago (2 children)

August 1990

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

So?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

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

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