[123773] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network Naming Conventions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Stewart)
Mon Mar 15 18:43:03 2010
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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:42:27 -0700
From: Bill Stewart <nonobvious@gmail.com>
To: "Fried, Jason (US - Hattiesburg)" <jfried@deloitte.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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- Beers (the main server got to be "anchor", which made our ex-Navy
boss happy and seemed more professional than some others
- Mountains, mostly volcanic
- Psychoactive chemicals ("the database is on speed, the development
project's on prozac...)
- Friends at Princeton used quarks ("Up is down today.") and random
names like "3bvax".
- Classical composers
- Tolkien characters (one of the reasons for DNS was that too many
people wanted to name their machine "frodo" or "mozart".)
