On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 9:15 AM, David Lum <[email protected]> wrote:
> Which somehow reminds me of a story of someone who wished he
> could name a troublesome server “mypants”, so when it went down…well…

  (Some versions of) SunOS/Solaris, by default, when told to ping a
host XYZ, just report "XYZ is alive" if it gets a response.  This led
to a former cow-orker of mine naming a box "elvis", just so he could
ping it from a Sun.

-- Ben

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