[123751] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network Naming Conventions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew D Kirch)
Mon Mar 15 09:58:06 2010
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:57:32 -0400
From: Andrew D Kirch <trelane@trelane.net>
To: Greg Whynott <Greg.Whynott@oicr.on.ca>
In-Reply-To: <DC204E6D75668940B66017BBFA7155728EF05CDD6D@EXCHANGE01.ad.oicr.on.ca>
Cc: "'nanog@nanog.org'" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Nice, I've used mountains (Denali, Everest, Olympus, etc) in the past to
name systems. Used profanity for awhile to name machines, there's
really quite a bit of it, and every language has it's own set, giving a
large pool to choose from. Sadly, when outages occurred, it was
somewhat difficult to determine which machines were down, and this was
discarded.
Andrew
Greg Whynott wrote:
> We use confidence inspiring names here for our devices, shakey, broken, jitter, crusty....
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