Re: Network Naming Conventions

[Joel Esler <joel.esler () me com>]

Being in the IDS business mostly involved with Snort, I've given my sensors "pig names" in the past.

Wilbur, Arnold, Lechoncito....


On Mar 15, 2010, at 9:57 AM, Andrew D Kirch wrote:

> Nice, I've used mountains (Denali, Everest, Olympus, etc) in the past to
> name systems.  Used profanity for awhile to name machines, there's
> really quite a bit of it, and every language has it's own set, giving a
> large pool to choose from.  Sadly, when outages occurred, it was
> somewhat difficult to determine which machines were down, and this was
> discarded.
>
> Andrew
>
> Greg Whynott wrote:
> > We use confidence inspiring names here for our devices,  shakey,  broken,  jitter,  crusty....  
> >
> > G

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