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Re: And the Funky Hostname Award for this week goes to: (fwd) |
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Bill Gaupp <William .
V .
Gaupp @
cdc .
com> |
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Control Data Systems, Inc. |
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Fri, 02 Sep 94 13:36:08 -0500 |
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gordon @
torrie .
org (Gordon Torrie), mnorris @
dalkey .
hea .
ie, koreth @
spud .
Hyperion .
COM |
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firewalls @
GreatCircle .
COM |
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Your message of Fri, 02 Sep 94 09:15:34 EDT. <9409021315 .
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> Mike Norris writes:
> > From firewalls-owner @
GreatCircle .
COM Fri Sep 2 05:04:49 1994
> > Date: Fri, 02 Sep 1994 09:18:08 +0100
> > From: Mike Norris <mnorris @
dalkey .
hea .
ie>
> > Subject: Re: And the Funky Hostname Award for this week goes to:
> > In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 01 Sep 94 22:50:17 EDT."
> > <iiuZRc2w165w @
torrie .
org>
> > Sender: Firewalls-Owner @
GreatCircle .
COM
> > To: gordon @
torrie .
org (Gordon Torrie)
> > Cc: firewalls @
GreatCircle .
COM, mnorris @
dalkey .
hea .
ie
> >
> >
> > >| Reference the current discussion of DNS information hiding... :-)
> > >[...]
> > >|
> > >| From: Egotists Anonymous (koreth @
spud .
Hyperion .
COM)
> > >| Subject: And the Funky Hostname Award for this week goes to:
> > >|
> > >| 129_179_75_12.cdc.com
> > >|
> > >| Now, I've heard of uncreative host naming, but that's ridiculous.
> > >
> > >Well it does have the advantage of not revealing either the hardware
> > >type or the name of the project that this host has been assigned to.
> > >:-)
> >
> > Sure, RFC1178 advises against such things, but it also says to avoid
> > a hostname beginning with a digit - maybe there should be a leading
> > underscore ;-)
> >
> > Maybe they've run out of really useful names - it's bound to happen.
> >
> > Mike Norris
Thanks for the award! :-) To end the speculation, the name algorithm
_was_, in fact, picked for information hiding. (Mostly to satisfy all
the servers using the &^%$# @
! double-reverse DNS lookup algorithm.)
All of our internal nameservers return more traditional names.
I wasn't aware of the RFC1178 advisory against beginning a hostname with
a digit (so many RFCs, so little time) so I may have to rethink that.
How about "internal_129_179_75_12.cdc.com" ? That long enough for all
you typing-phobics?
Thanks,
Bill Gaupp internet: wvg @
cdc .
com
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