hostname convention

Hi,

I think it will benefit us in the long run if we have good naming
convention for all the hostnames. I am interested in knowing how other
people name their network nodes, can you get me
some good documents in this areas.

I think these are the common nodes that need descriptive hostname:
  PC  (e.g. eagle-pc)
  MAC (e.g. apple-mac)
  Unix workstation
  NT workstation
  Notebook version of all above
  Novell workstation
  Network printer: Appletalk, HP JetDirect, ...
  Routers: Frame Relay, ISDN, Lease line ..
           10 BT, 100BT, TR, FDDI, ATM, ...
           Purpose: firewall, labs, lans, wans
  Switch: 10 BT, 100BT, TR, FDDI, ATM, ...
  Hub:    10 BT, 100BT, TR, FDDI, ...
  CSU/DSU
  Servers: file, application, backup, licences, CDROM, database ...
  ...
 
Of course, this can go into different levels of detail (manufacturer, OS
version, ..), I think this should be the right level of information
conveyed by the hostname for most people.

TIA

-Joe Choy
choy@best.com