Re: Network Naming Conventions

[Barry Shein <bzs () world std com>]

On March 13, 2010 at 10:53 ck () sandcastl es (ck) wrote:
> i believe in keeping host names as short as possible, so to start, i

At BU we brought down about 1/3 of the internet (no joke!) around 1985
when our very first host table entries to SRI-NIC contained single
letter hosts (like a.bu.edu) and names starting with a digit (I
remember 3b.bu.edu) which put the HOSTS table to /etc/hosts converter
into an infinite loop filling up BSD root disks which back then would
invariably hang/crash the OS (No space in /tmp No space in /tmp No
space in /tmp No space in /tmp....)

I think there's a write-up by me in an old RISKS digest from the time
and it was quite a flap on the TCP-IP list ("BU Joins The Internet!")

Completely inadvertent but it was probably as disruptive, relatively,
as the Morris worm.

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