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Re: Thoughts on best practice for naming router infrastructure in DNS

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Fri Jun 29 13:08:44 2007

To: "Neil J. McRae" <neil@domino.org>
Cc: Leigh Porter <leigh.porter@ukbroadband.com>,
	Mark Tinka <mtinka@globaltransit.net>,
	"Olsen, Jason" <jolsen@devry.com>, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 29 Jun 2007 16:35:09 BST."
             <20070629153436.9091DA6C29@defiant.domino.org>
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 13:02:45 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


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On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 16:35:09 BST, "Neil J. McRae" said:
> I remember in the past an excellent system using Sesame Street characters names.

This only works in small shops.  If you have more routers than muppets, you
have a problem.  Had a lab once where we named machines after colors. That
hit some snarls when we discovered nobody in the lab could consistently spell
'fuschia', 'mauve', or 'paisley'. :)


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