[123795] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network Naming Conventions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (gordon b slater)
Tue Mar 16 04:47:35 2010
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From: gordon b slater <gordslater@ieee.org>
To: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
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Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:46:53 +0000
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On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 18:51 -0400, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
> but they just don't realize how many there are.
wow, deja-vu !
A few years ago I went into a large SSI infrastructure undergoing
reconfiguration where the cluster nodes were named along the lines of
biscuits, pizzas, vegetables, sweets (candies), types of mud/dirt, grit,
etc etc - it made no sense until I came across a README_NOC_OPS
document that clarified it all (paraphrasing):
"Serviceable nodes have are named after fragments known to be found in
Richard M. Stallman's beard.
At-risk, scheduled-for-pull or questionable throughput nodes are named
after fragments assumed to be found in Ballmer's shorts. "
Both categories seemed at least 128-bit-space to me :)
Gord
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