[123754] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network Naming Conventions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Greco)
Mon Mar 15 10:20:11 2010
From: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
To: nanog@daork.net (Nathan Ward)
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 08:19:33 -0600 (CST)
In-Reply-To: <F272BFF2-8124-4DC4-9EF2-3626BAD751F6@daork.net> from "Nathan
Ward" at Mar 16, 2010 03:08:19 AM
Cc: nanOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> So, for production network and server gear, I like domain names
> built with city and site codes:
> site.city.domain
I don't think anyone's saying you can't also do that. Using CLLI or
IATA or whatever alongside router names works fine, and using CNAME's
allows you to provide both a functional name and a hostname for your
device.
We've done this for many, many years, and it works fine.
... JG
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