From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 23 11:50:13 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA03605 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 23 Feb 1996 11:50:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA03587 for ; Fri, 23 Feb 1996 11:50:06 -0800 (PST) Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65/1.1.8.2/19Aug95-0530PM) id AA05512; Fri, 23 Feb 1996 14:49:58 -0500 Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 14:49:58 -0500 From: "Garrett A. Wollman" Message-Id: <9602231949.AA05512@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: pete@pelican.com (Pete Carah) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Hostnames In-Reply-To: References: <96Feb19.091304est.20484-2@janus.border.com> Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Boy, are we ever getting off-topic here... < Mine are all seabirds, except for the one that's remoted at an ISP > location, which has the rather unimaginitive names of www.pelican.com and > ftp.pelican.com (and a couple of virtual hosts, etc.) About ten years ago, our group was using spice names. A number of people here were working on a modified version of 4.3 which ran on VAXstations. This system became widely popular around the Lab, and became known as the ``allspice system'', because the software distributions were all synchronized to our group's server, named allspice. This reinforced the selection of spices as machine names, and as a result a number of groups (including ours) are still using spices. In our group, I think only pepper (the last machine of ours which is actually still running the allspice system), ginger (which has allspice as a CNAME), and tabasco remain. A few years ago, the group switched to moons, and we have a whole bunch of these, now. When I came here, I took a dislike to the moons, and started using swords from Diane Duane novels. (When at UVM, I used horses from Robin McKinley stories.) Of course, my machine follows none of these. (It used to be adrastea, a moon, but now it's halloran-eldar. A booby prize for anyone who can determine the origin...) -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant