nuintari's rules of networking 0x5f:
Never start a hostname with anything other than an alphabetic character. There is a significant amount of software that cannot deal with labels starting with anything else.
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In the network I am unfucking, I have to document devices named 1foo and 2bar as onefoo and twobar, because the software I am using to generate graphs(graphviz) shits on nodes starting with a numeric.
The Psychotic Network Ferret /
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2025-03-24 14:22:27
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2025-03-24 14:22:27Event JSON
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