Re:RFC 1178: Choosing a name for your computer (1990)
by rgj on Sunday February 07, 2021 @02:14PM
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Best naming scheme I ever saw was at Harbinger in the late nineties. They used the periodic system. The last octet of the IP address corresponded to the atomic number, and you could use the full element name, or the abbreviation. So carbon.harbinger.com was x.x.x.6 and c.harbinger.com was a CNAME to carbon. oxygen or o was .8 etcetera.
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Re:RFC 1178: Choosing a name for your computer (1990)
by koolba on Sunday February 07, 2021 @02:40PM
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When you split a workload from one to multiple machines, would it have to follow the rules of fission to decide where to run it?
Re:RFC 1178: Choosing a name for your computer (1990)
by zoomablemind on Sunday February 07, 2021 @03:41PM
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> So carbon.harbinger.com was x.x.x.6 and c.harbinger.com was a CNAME to carbon. oxygen or o was .8 etcetera.
No wonder helium was mostly hanging ...
Sorry, could not resist. It is a clever naming scheme. At one site a client used names from The Three Stooges, then they got the 6th server (exhausting the list of the lead characters).
Re:RFC 1178: Choosing a name for your computer (1990)
by watersb on Sunday February 07, 2021 @10:21PM
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We had Stooges servers in the 1990s...
Re:RFC 1178: Choosing a name for your computer (1990)
by malobre on Sunday February 07, 2021 @06:46PM
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It's funny it is exactly what I did on my LAN, Hydrogen being my router and so on.