A Great Question!

. . . the Killer Robot was posed a fantastic question this morning by a certain manager of his:

"Killer Robot, do you know what "fred5*" and "fred6*" are for?" (*machine names changed to protect the innocent).

The Killer Robot, always aspiring to be helpful, and seeing this as an opportunity to poke fun, replied that he would research the machines in question.

Killer Robot, being quite the detective, began by pinging the two computers to obtain their IP addresses. There was no resolution.

Killer Robot then proceeded to DNS, where no entry concerning those particular names was to be found.

Killer Robot then checked a virtual server management application, thinking perhaps the servers were built, but standing outside our network (or not fully configured).

He then replied to the manager that these machines do not, in fact exist.

The manager replied that yes, he knew that - could the Killer Robot check on "fred8" and "fred9" . . .

At this rate, should the Killer Robot go ahead and send the list of all the servers to this manager? Or should I continue to spoon feed him the information?

Choices, choices :-)