Help name our new mail server!

[technical.angel]

I just got an email from our server admin.

He's getting ready to set up our new mail server (I believe it's going to be on the VMware server....), and he needs name ideas. Currently it's called (enter school initals here)_mail. So, yeah, much room for improvement.

But, our mail server, and our front end mail server (femail) does have a child together, (stumail!) Heh. Mail... femail... funny!!

[protege]

Ugh

But seriously, I've run into some interesting server/equipment names over the years. The best, had to be the college's mail server called "blackhole." Pretty damn appropriate, since anything sent to it tended to disappear Same school had printers named "Fred" and "Wilma" in the library.

[The Gatekeeper]

Toe


Toemail


Get it?

Huh?

Funny, right?

[Rapscallion]

Hang, as in Hangmail.

Rapscallion

[technical.angel]

Most of our new servers are named after vehicles. We have charger, corvette, gto, jeep and viper.

Can you tell it's just guys over in the server room?

[The Gatekeeper]

Pinto?

Gremlin?

oh oh I know!

Yugo!

[crazylegs]

Voice?

Chain?

Snail?

Royal?

(all running on the _mail theme)

[rvdammit]

Voice?

Chain?

Snail?

Royal?

(all running on the _mail theme)

Following the same theme she?

[burzikak]

I hate to be boring but even though giving servers cute names is fun, it does make it diffcult (for new people especially, or guys like me who are sent out to upgrade/support a customer environment) to work out what does what once you start deploying a large number of servers (100's or more).

best go with a countrycode-citycode-role# type name

eg the first mail server in sydney australia would be AU-SYD-MAIL1. does make for longer names but it really helps in the long run

[digilight]

well if they like naming their servers after cars how about

Piece_of_shit
Corvair
Beater
Rust_bucket
Death_trap

[sms001]

I. So, yeah, much room for improvement.

Yeah, with that kind of imagination you could easily end up with newschoolname_mail pretty easily Even the mascot or some derivative would be better (Like MU used to do.)

My home network workgroup is "Oz" with Tiktok, Tinman, Ozma, Toto, Glasscat, Singra, Kabumpo, Glinda and Wogglebug machines. Toto and Wogglebug are laptops and the big raid depository is Kabumpo

[Sandman]

I can't believe nobody has said this yet...

NOVA (as in Chevy Nova... read about the spanish translation of nova and you will see why it failed in Mexico)

[Shabo]

NOVA

No = No
Va = Go




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[lordlundar]

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[Broomjockey]

http://www.bash.org/?16730

Probably NSFW.