{"id":648,"date":"2008-04-07T10:40:44","date_gmt":"2008-04-07T15:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2008\/04\/07\/choosing-good-names-for-machines\/"},"modified":"2008-04-07T10:40:44","modified_gmt":"2008-04-07T15:40:44","slug":"choosing-good-names-for-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2008\/04\/07\/choosing-good-names-for-machines\/","title":{"rendered":"Choosing good names for machines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was thinking about the concept of naming machines and in general I try to first think of a theme to help decide on a naming convention.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know where I read about this&#8230; perhaps in the DNS &amp; BIND book or some other website (before blogs really took off) however I just rediscovered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faqs.org\/rfcs\/rfc1178.html\">RFC 1178<\/a> which offers plenty of suggestions and anti-suggestions for deciding on names for machines and like many of the earlier RFCs it is quite readable.  Highly recommended read.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.faqs.org\/rfcs\/rfc1178.html\">Read RFC 1178<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was thinking about the concept of naming machines and in general I try to first think of a theme to help decide on a naming convention. I don&#8217;t know where I read about this&#8230; perhaps in the DNS &amp; BIND book or some other website (before blogs really took off) however I just rediscovered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":703,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[260],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/703"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}