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Re:Things I Learnt from a Senior Software Engineer by bluedino on Sunday August 25, 2019 @08:47PM (#20796691)
The only machine we have that's not named poorly, is named DP2950. It was originally a Dell PowerEdge 2950, and we probably had more than one back then, so maybe it wasn't a great name.

Everything else is named based on it's purpose.

www, webapps, data, acccounting, mail, things like that.

But, mail is actually named mailV3 (it's the third hardware the mail server has been on). Why it wasn't just named mail, and if the old one was kept around, it could be mail-old, I don't know.

Then we have our development servers. devel, develv2, www-devel, that kind of stuff. I'd personally prefer devel-whatever the name of the production version is called. Instead we have to thing 'develv2 is actually the development version of dp2950....'

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Re:Things I Learnt from a Senior Software Engineer by inimino on Sunday August 25, 2019 @11:08PM (#20797162)
> Why it wasn't just named mail, and if the old one was kept around, it could be mail-old, I don't know.

Probably because mail system hostnames end up hardcoded in configuration files all over the place, and it's easier to add one and mirror onto it than to migrate the hardware while keeping the name.

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