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Hello,
We are currently trying to resolve the very same issue.
So far we plan to use following scheme:
1) Device name should be concatenation of following parts:
<2 letters of ISO country code>
http://www.bcpl.net/~jspath/isocodes.html
<3 letters of airport city code>
http://www.ufreight.com/faq/airport_code/airport_code_by_ac.html
<3 letters of location>
to be created
<4 letters of device name abbreviations>
to be created -- in case of cisco: model number
<1 letter separator>
arbitrary decided to be capital letter X (no DNS nor arithmetic exp problems)
<1 letter device ordinal>
can be hex if needed
Examples:
USMIANOC3662X1 - Miami Lakes NOC cisco 3662
USMIATPL7206X1 - Miami Teleplace cisco 7206
USMIANAPJM20X1 - Miami NAP Juniper M20
VEBRMPOP2501X1 - Venezuela, Barquisimento POP, VE cisco 2501
VACCSCTV1010X1 - Venezuela, Caracas CANTV collocation, cisco Lightstream 1010
2) We will also create DNS zone ???core.net which will be used in two main ways:
a) reverse DNS lookup, to map IP addresses into hierarchical names, like:
serial1-0-0-128-<customer_name>.USMIATPL3662X1.TelePlace.mia.us.ifxcore.net
This will be mainly used for tools like traceroute, etc.
b) straight DNS lookups of devices itself, like:
USMIATPL3662X1.ifxcore.net
This will be used to get easy access to a device itself (through Loopback),
and due to mnemonic nature of device name should be easy to memorize.
So far the only problem we run into with this scheme is 12 character limit
on hostnames on some boxes.
Przemek
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of
Kurt Erik Lindqvist
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 9:21 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Labeling and naming
For a project I am currently working on I stumbled upon the following.
What is the best way to lable and name equipment? Although this applies to
all equipment such as SDH ADMs, IP, ATM etc I realised that it seems to be
hardest to find a sensible convention for IP equipment. Preferably I would
like to find a convention that fits all, but I guess that is utopia.
So, since list contains, PTTs, Telcos, ISPs and wannabees is there any
good common scheme or pointers to something useful?
- kurtis -
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