[26974] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SERVER NAMES
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com)
Wed Feb 2 23:10:38 2000
From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
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To: patrick@cybernothing.org (Patrick Greenwell)
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 20:36:03 -0800 (PST)
Cc: steve@mwis.net (Steve Dispensa), james@darkblue.net (DeepBlue),
nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.20.0002021856570.3213-100000@unagi.cybernothing.org> from "Patrick Greenwell" at Feb 02, 2000 07:00:22 PM
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> Not picking on you in particular, but isn't one of the greatest advantages
> to having DNS to offer *meaningful* names to machines(assuming anything
> other than a home network?)
>
> It's nice to be able to go in to a company and see machines named "www1,
> www2, mx1, mx2" etc. which offer some indication as to their purpose
> rather than "maverick, foozlebutt, blarg", etc. which offers no such
> indication. I know it isn't as fun, but it certainly seems to be much more
> useful (IMO of course...)
>
Sure. Esp. for blackhats. Which makes the more "attactive" target;
db.accounting.bigcorp.com
foozlebutt.bigcorp.com
... YMMV
--bill
