Network Naming Conventions

Marshall Eubanks tme at americafree.tv
Mon Mar 15 15:44:04 UTC 2010


On Mar 15, 2010, at 11:37 AM, Sachs, Marcus Hans (Marc) wrote:

> I used to use dead presidents to name devices.  Lincoln, Washington,  
> Jefferson, etc.  Humorous yet patriotic.
>

We used to use deceased musicians.

Popular (i.e., rock) for Linux servers.

Classical musicians for everything else.

But, lately, we are moving more to just numbers (webNNN, etc.) .

Regards
Marshall

>
> Marc





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