full-disclosure - router naming

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Date: Fri Sep  2 15:17:20 2005
From: peer at baden-online.de (Peer Janssen)
Subject: router naming

luca developer wrote:

> Hi folks
> Is there a best practice for assign a router name ? e.g.: router type 
> + city + room.id <http://room.id>  and so on
> Wich method is usually used to assign a router name ?

"Full-disclosure router naming" would be GPS coordinates, wouldn't it?

This might proove to be a security risk, though, depending on your 
organization.

Might be pratical to locate missing (read: walled-in or so) routers -- 
if they won't be moved around keeping their then-old name.

Cheers
Peer