Internet history (was: We need a better Internet)

[Benjamin Scott]

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Shawn O'Shea <shawn at eth0.net> wrote:
> I've always felt that at a minimum servers deserve real names.

  It really depends on the environment.  The more commoditized things
are, the less sense it makes to have fancy names.  If you've got a 100
node server farm for some massive web site project, everything's an
interchangeable part, and it's likely machines are dedicated to single
tasks.  OTOH, small orgs usually have a small number of multi-purpose
servers, and roles get moved around between them a lot, so it makes
more sense for the servers to be unique entities in their own right.

  As Mark Komarinski already mentioned, it's always a very good idea
to have generic service names for roles, and alias those names to the
machines filling the role.

-- Ben