[ale] OT FUN: What are your hosts named?

[mbarker68 at home.com]

Chris Bergeron wrote:
> 
> Okay guys, it's almost Friday; and I'm thinking just for fun I'd like to
> know how you guys name your networks...  I've figured out that Chris
> F.'s are named after spacestations, etc...  Mine are named after US
> Cruise Missiles;  at my previous employer we named them after "things
> that can happen in a moshpit" - hemorrhage, trauma, laceration, etc...
> 
> Any other fun ones out there?
> 
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At one place I worked where I was allowed to name machines I was given a
couple of Netras to build and stuck with the cartoon naming convention. 
I named them Dexter and Deedee.

Later on I was assigned the incredibly fun project of building a status
and reporting monitor that was a server that would poll all others and
report to several places, including an on-call list, any hosts or
services that where down.  The goal was to have a machine that if all
others where down this one would still be up and running and telling
someone of the outages.  I dubbed it "Cockroach" the famed insect that
is said may be the only creature to survive a nuclear holocaust.  When
questioned how that fit into the cartoon theme I remembered a short
lived but amusing (mostly because of the sound track) cartoon on Cartoon
Network called "Augie and the cockroaches".

-Michael

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