A children's tale and gwb43 (no, not My Pet Goat)

[Duer 157099]

As many of you know, some within the WH have been using the *@gwb43.com email address to conduct WH biz, which has raised serious questions. Many suspect that Rove conducts most of his email business through this or another similar outside domain.

And, as many know, the WHOIS record for gwb43.com has one of the nameservers mapped to A.NS.TRESPASSERS-W.NET.

Now, surely many of you wonder what sort of domain "Trespassers-W" might be, yeah?

Well, here's the answer, and whether it's just innocuous, or whether there is a hidden message of some kind, I leave to you to determine.

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The Piglet lived in a very grand house in the middle of a beech-tree, and the beech-tree was in the middle of the forest, and the Piglet lived in the middle of the house. Next to his house was a piece of broken board which had: "TRESPASSERS W" on it. When Christopher Robin asked the Piglet what it meant, he said it was his grandfather's name, and had been in the family for a long time. Christopher Robin said you couldn't be called Trespassers W, and Piglet said yes, you could, because his grandfather was, and it was short for Trespassers Will, which was short for Trespassers William. And his grandfather had had two names in case he lost one—Trespassers after an uncle, and William after Trespassers.

"I've got two names," said Christopher Robin carelessly.

"Well, there you are, that proves it," said Piglet.

[Duer 157099]

1. Trespassers-W? C'mon, don't you see the irony?

kickin' for the weekend crowd...

[kiahzero]

2. It's probably meaningless

If you're familiar with server naming conventions, the techs pick all sorts of categories for names. At my old job, we had a trio of web servers: huey, duey, and louie. We also had clusters named after volcanoes, cars, and video game characters.

[hootinholler]

3. Servers are often theme named...

One common theme used to be to name them after dead people so the ping service running on 'elvis' returns the message 'elvis is alive', repeat for kennedy, yadda yadda.

I tend to pick on pooh characters when naming servers in my home net.

-Hoot