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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Harry Potter characters is a perfectly reasonable server naming scheme. Server names should be easily recognisable but not tied to any particular service/project/function on that machine (as the server may be used for other things later etc)

See RFC 1178: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1178

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] meekah 6 points 1 year ago

Don't act like the internet isn't built on RFCs that old