Generate human-readable hostnames #2
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Names like cfcfqcuitlkutjo and phfyyu4t4ahjaae are impossible to communicate outside of chat, and difficult to talk about. This commit adds a dictionary of basic english words[1] and generates hostnames by randomly joining three of them with -. Example hostnames: clothes-at-sound take-map-uncle shoot-nearly-me sail-eye-certain trust-little-woman [1] http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_1000_basic_words
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I like the idea, but I think we need to be careful of hostname length limits on some operating systems (e.g. Windows, maybe Solaris). What about the idea that we pull from a list of X number of short words, then append a GUID to the end of it while ensuring that the total length is <= 15 characters? This would give a little bit of friendliness while still limiting possible name collision. |
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I also considered making this configurable on a per-pool basis so it could be slowly rolled-out... |
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👍 I like it. If we're already working with hostnames > 8 characters, seems like we should be ok with anything up to a point. Could we just truncate at 24 characters or something? |
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👍 i typically avoid hyphens in hostnames, but that seems like a reasonable alternative to deal with length. |
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I'll update this to generate only hostnames <= 15 characters. I'm concerned about the probability of collisions though (even without the 15-character limit). I'm going to explore other ways to limit that and update. |
Names like cfcfqcuitlkutjo and phfyyu4t4ahjaae are impossible to communicate
outside of chat, and difficult to talk about. This commit adds a dictionary of
basic english words[1] and generates hostnames by randomly joining three of
them with -. Example hostnames:
clothes-at-sound take-map-uncle shoot-nearly-me sail-eye-certain
trust-little-woman
[1] http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_1000_basic_words