[97707] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Thoughts on best practice for naming router infrastructure in
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Shultz)
Fri Jun 29 13:18:59 2007
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:15:30 -0700
From: Jeff Shultz <jeffshultz@wvi.com>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <12148.1183136565@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> 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'. :)
>
Star Trek Federation Starships... they seem to invent more daily, so no
problems running out.
--
Jeff Shultz
