> I was looking at a traceroute and ran across this > resolve: > > 12 Aliera.HACKS.Arizona.EDU (150.135.84.17) 153.524 ms 146.634 ms > 145.900 ms > > Just for grins and giggles, I put that into a browser. All the > page says is, "HI!" > > I didn;t dig any further, but I thought it interesting enough to mention. No need to "dig" any further, I'll give you all the juicy details. HACKS (Hardware And Computing Knowledge Society) was founded in the late 80's early 90's by a computer engineering student (Joe Fico, just for history's sake) to provide a place for people to hack on hardware. The first machine that Joe got working was a VAX 11/750. In the summer of '91 we manage to get 3 VAX 11/780's donated that did not work. That summer myself, Tom Duff with help from Joe and a few others got two of them working. We decided we needed a scheme for their names, and we came up with dragons. The two working boxes were Smaug and Tiamat (and, as it turned out, Tiamat was always the trouble maker). This tradition has largely continued, with Bahamut and Oolong being others. Then in the 2000's they got some Intel hardware and put up some linux/*bsd boxes and needed names for the machines. Naturally, they had to be dragons. I suggested Aliera or Morollan :) Everyone liked it (because they too are largely familiar with Steven's works) and thus, you have aliera.hacks.arizona.edu. -Jot -- Jot Powers <books at bofh.com> http://www.bofh.com/books/ "I'm upping my standards, so up yours!" -Pat Paulsen (1927-1997), Presidential Campaign Slogan