[dundee] Naming Conventions

[Andrew Clayton]

On Wed, 8 Oct 2008 00:34:26 +0100, Kris Davidson wrote:

> I see what you're saying and there are arguments for both, personally

We use both, the machines official name (which it will keep
throughout its lifetime) might be titan but it will also have aliases
depending on what it does. e.g stmp or dns0 etc. When you refer to a
machine by its official name people will more readily know what it is
than if you use its service name which may well change machine on a
regular/semi-regular basis. e.g you might start out with smtp. pop3.
imap. www. all on the same machine and then later move them out onto
there own box's, using the service names allows you to do this
transparently to the user. 

Summary: official hostname, stable.  service name, transitory.

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