Re: [tlug] LAN naming

[Jonathan Byrne <jq@example.com>]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 09:58:51PM +0900, Graham Briggs wrote:

>of the most bizarre applications I have ever seen)). Of course scaling 
>is a problem. I regularly deal with about 30 of the 100 or so servers 

Yup, that's why I go for really clear names, like gateway.osaka.example.jp,
so there can be no mistake what it is, even if you're only two days on
the job.  The more staff and more hardware you have, the less scalable
shorthand FQDNs become.  

> I think we're going to end up going back and rethinking that.

Do it before the monster is too big to kill :-)

>about going for pod number based naming

I try to keep pods out of my basement :-)

>At a tangent, a while ago we looked at iTracks (sp?) to help us track 
>PCs, but never implemented it. Anyone used it?

Nope.  How far did you go in looking at it?

Jonathan
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