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A comment on RFC 1178: Choosing a name for your computer (1990). Parent comment

Re:RFC 1178: Choosing a name for your computer (1990) by kps on Sunday February 07, 2021 @10:08AM (#26055501)
Personally — since we're all chiming in — I use elements. My fallback DNS is a periodic table.
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Re:RFC 1178: Choosing a name for your computer (1990) by salamander014 on Sunday February 07, 2021 @12:00PM (#26056274)
Please tell me you assign IP addresses based on atomic weight!

This might be the coolest thing I've read all year...

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Re:RFC 1178: Choosing a name for your computer (1990) by kps on Sunday February 07, 2021 @10:45PM (#26060554)
Atomic number, yes. And of course every machine has a one or two-letter alias.
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