Re: Network Naming Conventions

[gordon b slater <gordslater () ieee org>]

On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 18:51 -0400, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
>  but they just don't realize how many there are.  

wow, deja-vu !

A few years ago I went into a large SSI infrastructure undergoing
reconfiguration where the cluster nodes were named along the lines of
biscuits, pizzas, vegetables, sweets (candies), types of mud/dirt, grit,
etc etc  - it made no sense until I came across a README_NOC_OPS
document that clarified it all (paraphrasing):

"Serviceable nodes have are named after fragments known to be found in
Richard M. Stallman's beard.
At-risk, scheduled-for-pull or questionable throughput nodes are named
after fragments assumed to be found in Ballmer's shorts. "

Both categories seemed at least 128-bit-space to me :)

Gord
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