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Re:RFC 1178: Choosing a name for your computer (1990) by zoomablemind on Sunday February 07, 2021 @03:41PM (#26058017)
> 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 (#26060410)
We had Stooges servers in the 1990s...