On Feb 22, 2021, at 7:02 AM, t...@pelican.org wrote: > On Thursday, 18 February, 2021 22:37, "Warren Kumari" <war...@kumari.net> > said: > >> 4: Not too long after I started doing networking (and for the same small >> ISP in Yonkers), I'm flying off to install a new customer. I (of course) >> think that I'm hot stuff because I'm going to do the install, configure the >> router, whee, look at me! Anyway, I don't want to check a bag, and so I >> stuff the Cisco 2501 in a carryon bag, along with tools, etc (this was all >> pre-9/11!). I'm going through security and the TSA[0] person opens my bag >> and pulls the router out. "What's this?!" he asks. I politely tell him that >> it's a router. He says it's not. I'm still thinking that I'm the new >> hotness, and so I tell him in a somewhat condescending way that it is, and >> I know what I'm talking about. He tells me that it's not a router, and is >> starting to get annoyed. I explain using my "talking to a 5 year old" voice >> that it most certainly is a router. He tells me that lying to airport >> security is a federal offense, and starts looming at me. I adjust my >> attitude and start explaining that it's like a computer and makes the >> Internet work. He gruffly hands me back the router, I put it in my bag and >> scurry away. As I do so, I hear him telling his colleague that it wasn't a >> router, and that he certainly knows what a router is, because he does >> woodwork... > > Here in the UK we avoid that issue by pronouncing the packet-shifter as > "rooter", and only the wood-working tool as "rowter" :)
So wrong. A “root” server is part of the DNS. A “route” server is part of BGP. > Of course, it raises a different set of problems when talking to the > Australians… Everything is weird down down. But I still like them. :-) -- TTFN, patrick
