Wietse Venema wrote:
Jose Luis Tallon:
Wietse Venema wrote:
[snip]
It's no worse than smtp versus smtpd. If there exists a different
name for the agent at the door, then that might work. Alas, cerberus
is already in use (by the "kerberos" authentication system).
And so are "Heimdall" (KTH's implementation of Kerberos) as well as
Anubis and Horus.
Unless you want to use "St.Peter", of course --- no offense intended,
of course.
I briefly looked for alternatives to St. George, the dragon slayer
but didn't come up with a sexy name.
"bouncer" would be good if there was not a near name collision.
Would "zbouncer" be different enough? It's a bit long, though.
Perhaps, "zombo" (zombie bouncer)?
[Charon]
Charon is not too bad. Certainly better than zzapper or zkiller
and other ugly names that I did not mention.
Wietse
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oedipus,
Continuing his journey to Thebes, Oedipus encounters the Sphinx who
would stop all those who traveled to Thebes and ask them a riddle. If
the travelers were unable to answer correctly, they were eaten by the
Sphinx; if they were successful, they would be able to continue their
journey.
Short, no collisions, and has an 'x' to supply coolness. I am partial to
"prefix," though, and agree that "bouncer" would just confuse people.
