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Ideas for Host names and DNS naming formats

romanroma
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I am looking for ideas on what works best for hostnames and DNS naming format. How do you logically breakout or name your devices?

 

 

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Jaderson Pessoa
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Hello, 

 

Today i'm using these format:

 

SWA-PBLEXP-01

where: SW= SWITCH A= ACCESS, PBL= BUSINESS NAME, EXP= NAME OF DEPARTMENT, 01= QUANTITY OF DEVICES AT THIS PLACE.

 

SWC-PBLDTC-01

SW= SWITCH C= CORE, PBL= BUSINESS NAME, DTC= DATACENTER, 01= QUANTITY OF DEVICES AT THIS PLACE.

 

I hope that it can help you.

 

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Thanks in advance.

Jaderson Pessoa
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Jaderson Pessoa
VIP Alumni
VIP Alumni

Hello, 

 

Today i'm using these format:

 

SWA-PBLEXP-01

where: SW= SWITCH A= ACCESS, PBL= BUSINESS NAME, EXP= NAME OF DEPARTMENT, 01= QUANTITY OF DEVICES AT THIS PLACE.

 

SWC-PBLDTC-01

SW= SWITCH C= CORE, PBL= BUSINESS NAME, DTC= DATACENTER, 01= QUANTITY OF DEVICES AT THIS PLACE.

 

I hope that it can help you.

 

Please, rate all post that was help you.

 

Thanks in advance.

Jaderson Pessoa
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@Jaderson Pessoa
Thank you for your suggestions. I have the same type of network, where I have campus and data center. Currently, I have a mix of hostnames and DNS names, which I want to fix and make a uniform format.

I know that changing hostnames will require SSH keys to be rekeyed, so due to the latter, I am thinking of just changing DNS names.

You have a great format, that shows which layer of operation that I like. Example: Access, Distribution, CORE.

Do you do anything different for remote office locations? Or does that just fall under the 'business name' and/or 'department'?

Thank you

Do you do anything different for remote office locations? Or does that just fall under the 'business name'

 

for devices that have directly communication with remote sites, we have a difference,  

 

for exemple: RTC-PBLSP-01 and RTC-PBLMNS-01

 

where rtc is router-core

 

Jaderson Pessoa
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