![]() If you have had to deal with HP drivers, you should understand the printer reference! 6. Hades is the printer, Cerberus is the firewall, and Demeter is the mail server. Zeus and Hera are my domain controllers, with the various other names doled out almost at random with three exceptions. ![]() This is one I favour myself for my home network. And when \\HOMER crashes, don’t forget to say “D’oh!” 5. If you’re not a fan of the Simpsons cartoon show, this may seem like a limited list for naming servers, but check out and you will see that there are enough characters out there to provide server names for a fairly large network. Spelling them may prove to be a challenge, especially if you start to use the various Jedi names like Yoda, Mace, Depa, Dorak, Devan, Darrys, Jurahi, Kirlocca, Zhar, Bala, Obba, etc. With six movies already out, a television series, and countless books, the list of Star Wars characters provided enough names to meet any number of servers you might have. Obviously, the captains must be reserved for domain controllers, Archer, Kirk, Picard, Cisco and Janeway, but the rest of the crew names can be used as needed. Old school however the various characters from across the Star Trek series and movies provide for a very large pool of names. Someone has also taken all the marriages and children after the defeat of you-know-who. The Weasley clan alone could cover most of the workstations in a medium to large office – Arthur, Molly, Bill, Charlie, Percy, Fred, George, Ron and Ginny. Servers were named for professors at Hogwarts while workstations were named for the various students, Deatheaters, and incidental characters in the books. Harry Potter charactersįirst on our list is the vast array of characters from JK Rowling’s world of Harry Potter. It’s just a server name, but why be boring when you can be witty (or weird). Okay, they may be short and to the point, and strictly speaking they probably come close to complying with RFC 1178, but where’s the fun in that? Some sysadmins do like to have a bit of fun even when naming servers so we’ve put together some very cool and funny server naming conventions that we’ve come across. ![]() FileServer1, DC05, ORLWEB01… what do these server names have in common? They are boring. ![]()
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