RE: Thoughts on best practice for naming router infrastructure in DNS

2007-07-02 Thread Tim Franklin
On Fri, June 29, 2007 4:35 pm, Neil J. McRae wrote: > I remember in the past an excellent system using Sesame Street characters > names. Doesn't scale though :( Hence the rapid emergence of southpark-naming-draft-001.txt, flintstones-naming-draft-001.txt. Not to mention the grover / super-grov

Re: Thoughts on best practice for naming router infrastructure in DNS

2007-06-29 Thread Chris L. Morrow
On Fri, 29 Jun 2007, Cat Okita wrote: > On Fri, 29 Jun 2007, Chris L. Morrow wrote: > > perhaps a decent other question is: Do I want to let the whole world know > > that router X with interfaces of type Y/Z/Q is located in 1-wilshire. > > > > I suppose on the one hand it's helpful to know that

Re: Thoughts on best practice for naming router infrastructure in DNS

2007-06-29 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:15:30 PDT, you said: > Star Trek Federation Starships... they seem to invent more daily, so no > problems running out. If your DNS is RFC3490-enabled, you can go for the Klingon and Romulan ships too. Particularly handy if you're into security through obscurity. :) pgp

Re: Thoughts on best practice for naming router infrastructure in DNS

2007-06-29 Thread Brandon Butterworth
> If you have more routers than muppets, you have a problem. More muppets than routers is also a problem brandon

Re: Thoughts on best practice for naming router infrastructure in DNS

2007-06-29 Thread Jeff Shultz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 16:35:09 BST, "Neil J. McRae" said: I remember in the past an excellent system using Sesame Street characters names. This only works in small shops. If you have more routers than muppets, you have a problem. Had a lab once where we named machines

Re: Thoughts on best practice for naming router infrastructure in DNS

2007-06-29 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 16:35:09 BST, "Neil J. McRae" said: > I remember in the past an excellent system using Sesame Street characters > names. This only works in small shops. If you have more routers than muppets, you have a problem. Had a lab once where we named machines after colors. That hit s

Re: Thoughts on best practice for naming router infrastructure in DNS

2007-06-29 Thread Chris L. Morrow
On Fri, 29 Jun 2007, Alexander Harrowell wrote: > > Mythic Beasts Ltd, IIRC, names their machines after, uh, mythic > beasts. Which is consistent, but not especially useful.. perhaps a decent other question is: Do I want to let the whole world know that router X with interfaces of type Y/Z/Q i

RE: Thoughts on best practice for naming router infrastructure in DNS

2007-06-29 Thread Neil J. McRae
I remember in the past an excellent system using Sesame Street characters names.

Re: Thoughts on best practice for naming router infrastructure in DNS

2007-06-29 Thread Alexander Harrowell
Mythic Beasts Ltd, IIRC, names their machines after, uh, mythic beasts. Which is consistent, but not especially useful.. On 6/29/07, Leigh Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Then you get some networks who name all the routers after cheeses or characters from bill and ben the flowerpot men. --

Re: Thoughts on best practice for naming router infrastructure in DNS

2007-06-29 Thread Leigh Porter
Then you get some networks who name all the routers after cheeses or characters from bill and ben the flowerpot men. -- Leigh Mark Tinka wrote: On Friday 15 June 2007 00:27, Olsen, Jason wrote: So, what practices do you folks follow? What are the up and downsides you encounter?

Re: Thoughts on best practice for naming router infrastructure in DNS

2007-06-29 Thread Mark Tinka
On Friday 15 June 2007 00:27, Olsen, Jason wrote: > So, what practices do you folks follow? What are the up > and downsides you encounter? At my previous employer, we came up with a formula that we were happy with. For reverse DNS, it involves: * defining the interface * defining the device f

Re: Thoughts on best practice for naming router infrastructure in DNS

2007-06-15 Thread Joe Abley
On 14-Jun-2007, at 16:25, K K wrote: On 6/14/07, randal k <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This particular issue has been confounding to work around as well. The issue of constantly updating DNS to match the current topology is a pain, but in my opinion, very necessary. I'm not entirely convi

Re: Thoughts on best practice for naming router infrastructure in DNS

2007-06-14 Thread K K
On 6/14/07, randal k <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This particular issue has been confounding to work around as well. The issue of constantly updating DNS to match the current topology is a pain, but in my opinion, very necessary. I'm not entirely convinced DNS records for every possible interfac