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Re: FYI: created symlinks tt01 -> geuzenveld for old ROOT data



Hi,

> > old name. Instead I've now created symlinks in the appropriate 1999
> > root_data directory trees, such that plots-on-demand will find all
> > data for tt01.ripe.net.
> >
> > It would probably be nice if sometime in future we could avoid the
> > convolution of testbox ids and names (e.g. it's pretty confusing if
> > tt98.ripe.net plots appear under www/test-traffic/Plots/tt05),

Yes, agreed.

> > but for now it seems best to follow the plain and simple rule
> > hostname=tt<BoxID>.ripe.net for all machines participating in
> > the measurement chain. Also: once datataking started, a hostname
> > should ALWAYS be the same for the duration of a box' active TTM life.
> 
> Agreed.
> 
> A long time ago, we also agreed that TB names should not be recycled, in
> order to avoid confusion when analyzing old data.  tt05/tt06 now seem to
> violate that rule (they were machine in Groningen and Dortmund early '98).

The naming rule is not violated; instead only the same *id* is reused,
which to my surprise turned to be the "primary key" when merging data.

I am not sure if this is a consensus to rename tt98; that's possible of course.

If only someone came up with this info at the time the question was asked!

-- Warning: Dates in Calendar are closer than they appear.
Fotis Georgatos <fotis@ripe.net>, nic-hdl:     FMG21-RIPE





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