A Google Cloud support engineer solves a tough DNS case

Re:A Google Cloud support engineer solves a tough DNS case by magicalhippo on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @04:29PM (#23239785)

> It is indeed folly to assume that cattle have no identity.

My dad had a book over almost all the cow names in Norway[1], per 1988. As a kid I found it rather fun to just flip through it and read some names, often wondering how they came up with them.

However since then it seems the tradition of naming cattle has dropped[2] to less than 30%.

[1]: "Gullhorn og dei andre : kunamn i Noreg" https://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-nb_digibok_2010111708049

[2]: https://www.nrk.no/nordland/kyrne-far-ikke-lenger-navn-1.835...

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Re:A Google Cloud support engineer solves a tough DNS case by simook on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @01:10AM (#23243478)

I only know of small farmers who name their livestock, but that was back in the States.

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Re:A Google Cloud support engineer solves a tough DNS case by jfk13 on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @08:55AM (#23246289)

Compared to US-scale farming, I'd guess most Norwegian farmers are "small".

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Re:A Google Cloud support engineer solves a tough DNS case by magicalhippo on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @09:26AM (#23246537)

Indeed. When the 1988 study was done, which resulted in the book of cow names among other things, there were about 360k cows in Norway total, and the average number of cows per farm was ~5.6.

These days the number has risen, IIRC around 35, though that's still quite a low number compared to larger countries I imagine. I'm pretty sure the variance is quite high however, with a fair number of farms with just a few cows dragging down the mean.

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