[123718] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network Naming Conventions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barry Shein)
Sat Mar 13 15:50:38 2010
From: Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:49:37 -0500
To: ck <ck@sandcastl.es>
In-Reply-To: <8c308e8b1003131053j7096e79cgc80eaf370c1c8939@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On March 13, 2010 at 10:53 ck@sandcastl.es (ck) wrote:
> i believe in keeping host names as short as possible, so to start, i
At BU we brought down about 1/3 of the internet (no joke!) around 1985
when our very first host table entries to SRI-NIC contained single
letter hosts (like a.bu.edu) and names starting with a digit (I
remember 3b.bu.edu) which put the HOSTS table to /etc/hosts converter
into an infinite loop filling up BSD root disks which back then would
invariably hang/crash the OS (No space in /tmp No space in /tmp No
space in /tmp No space in /tmp....)
I think there's a write-up by me in an old RISKS digest from the time
and it was quite a flap on the TCP-IP list ("BU Joins The Internet!")
Completely inadvertent but it was probably as disruptive, relatively,
as the Morris worm.
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