Network Naming Conventions

Mon Mar 15 12:59:00 UTC 2010

I have yet to see a core router named "Luke" or "Bart"... ;)

-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Greco [mailto:jgreco at ns.sol.net] 
Sent: March-14-10 11:11 PM
To: Rubens Kuhl
Cc: Paul Stewart; NANOG list
Subject: Re: Network Naming Conventions

> On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 6:01 PM, Paul Stewart <pstewart at nexicomgroup.net> wrote:
> > Yeah, just learning that... got a *tonne* of offline replies.
> >
> > Planets won't work well, simpson characters we'll run out very
> > quickly.... umm.. forgot the rest.  We were looking for something that
> > makes sense to the function of the box itself and scales up (as per some
> > other folks point)....
> 
> With 726 episodes in 30 TV seasons and 11 feature films, it's very
> difficult to run out of Star Trek characters. Not main characters,
> though.

Not to mention all the books, etc.

Really, it's not hard to find precompiled lists of this sort of stuff.
One could start at someplace like http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Coruscant
for Star WARS (not Trek) stuff and probably scale up to a very large size
with all the names, places, planets, etc.

In the old days (pre-Web), it was actually a lot harder to come up with
a comprehensive naming scheme.

... JG
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