[123752] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network Naming Conventions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Esler)
Mon Mar 15 10:06:31 2010
From: Joel Esler <joel.esler@me.com>
In-reply-to: <4B9E3CCC.5080604@trelane.net>
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:05:52 -0400
To: Andrew D Kirch <trelane@trelane.net>
Cc: "'nanog@nanog.org'" <nanog@nanog.org>,
Greg Whynott <Greg.Whynott@oicr.on.ca>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Being in the IDS business mostly involved with Snort, I've given my sensors "pig names" in the past.
Wilbur, Arnold, Lechoncito....
On Mar 15, 2010, at 9:57 AM, Andrew D Kirch wrote:
> 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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>> G
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Joel Esler
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