| Bravo Naming Scheme for Hosts | 1st est. 1993? updated Jan 2001 |
| A list of our host names, along with the words they're based on | |
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OKYO Tokyo ELHI Delhi EOUL Seoul GHAI Shanghai AULO Sao Paulo NDON London YORK New York ARIS Paris SCOW Moscow PORE Singapore LONA Barcelona ELES Los Angeles DRID Madrid ROME Rome CAGO Chicago ONTO Toronto ISCO San Francisco RDAM Amsterdam RLIN Berlin BERG Heidelberg NBUL Istanbul EGAS Las Vegas DNEY Sydney JING Beijing IAMI Miami NICH Munich ILAN Milan IEGO San Diego GKOK Bangkok ENNA Vienna BLIN Dublin UVER Vancouver URNE Melbourne STON Boston TTLE Seattle FURT Frankfurt AGEN Copenhagen ANTA Atlanta ANDO Orlando LLAS Dallas ENIX Phoenix HENS Athens GART Stuttgart EIGH Raleigh PROPOSED |
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important that a consistent and sensible naming scheme be used from
start. Any words with pre-conceived meanings or association, or terms
that might be referred to in the course of normal conversation should
be avoided at all costs. Names of staff and words like "server" and "internet" are among the worst possible choices because of the inevitable confusion it creates. You'll find yourself explaining: "Joe the user, at his home computer, not the computer at the office named Joe" "Connect to SERVER2 the proxy server, as opposed to the file & print server (FPS) named SERVER" "You can't reach the Internet? Can you ping the proxy server named INTERNET?" Unique, unambiguous and short host names eliminate needless frustrations. Our lists have been refined over 20 years, resulting in minimal confusion and offensiveness. They're even pronounceable in English and cute. For advanced IT administrators: the 4-letter length makes it possible to use them for Symantec GHOST image files, without risk of overwriting the previous file when file spanning (>2GB) occurs! 4-char
hostname + 1-char
version code + 3-digit
sequence no. (generated by
Symantec GHOST)
thus avoiding collision during LFN to 8.3 format conversion, and the ensuing truncation * Many of you were curious about the seemingly odd names for the Bravo servers and workstations. Here's the inside scoop... It all started around 1987, when I started networking around the house. It was the era of MainLAN and LANtastic! Initially, the few hosts were named after deceased pets, so that they'd live on, memorialized by our servers. As hosts are added, we had to resort to using names of living pets. Eventually, even those ran out. Out of desperation, we started the practice of using names of our "stuffed animals" ("stuffed toys" in UK, Stofftiere FR). [Edited 2009: Even stuffed animals are depleted... Now, virtual pets are used.] |
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