[130937] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: network name 101100010100110.net
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barry Shein)
Mon Oct 18 13:32:34 2010
From: Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 13:27:23 -0400
To: Joe Hamelin <joe@nethead.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTim5Srgq-_KC6e3sGYWWxcwn5DzKEaV+_VYhYgCg@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com, nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On October 17, 2010 at 20:24 joe@nethead.com (Joe Hamelin) wrote:
> That's why 3M registered mmm.com back in 1988.
When BU joined the internet and promptly brought down about a third of
it with their host table entries one of the problems was a host named
3b (.bu.edu, it was an AT&T 3B5) which caused a 4bsd script to go into
an infinite loop filling roots (/tmp) which back then crashed systems.
Also, one-letter hostnames (a.bu.edu as an alias for bucsa.bu.edu,
etc.)
I know because basically it was my fault.
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