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


From: Jeff Shultz <jeffshultz () wvi com>
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:15:30 -0700


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


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