What host names do you use?

[amphy@lemmy.ca]

I recently de-embarrassed my hostnames. I went with names that are one step removed from being dead obvious. Feels nice having descriptive, but not uncreative, names for everything

• Custom built desktop pc: Studio
• Home theater PC: Theater
• Server: Gamut (this was Nexus until I ran into bs regarding the TLD preload list in web browsers... had to go with a non-tld name)
• Everything else: Based off the model. For example, my Asus Vivobook S 15 is just "Vivobook", etc

[vegancheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

I set up my current desktop while reading Gaiman's The Sandman, so it's called Morpheus. Because I felt I needed to keep with the theme, my laptop is hades, my phone persephone, my server apollo, my router helios, the media centre PC is orpheus, the pi that boots and updates it put of usage hours is eurydice, and the pi that runs home assistant is zeus (because it's responsible for light(n)ing.

Oh, and the work profile on my phone is sisyphos.

[octobob@lemmy.ml]

I used the names of the eldrazi from magic the gathering:

Ulamog: desktop PC
Emrakul: NAS / Plex server name
Kozilek: NUC mini PC

[vegancheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

Finally someone who actually uses a Vostro. Always found that name unreasonably funny.

[sxan@midwest.social]

In the past, I used Gimli's family tree for server names.

Oh, that's good.

Middle Earth is a great source for this stuff, b/c Tolkien filled out the world like a historian.

[Guest]

Mine just moves

[oxideseven@lemmy.ca]

Used to be astronomy based. Sol for actual network and then planets and stellar bodies and stuff. But I have so many devices now.

Now I just make it ass informative with as free letters as possible. Almost everything is 3 or 4 letters long.

So like fsrv for file server, msvr for media server and so on.

[oxideseven@lemmy.ca]

This is the way.

[vitabytesdev@feddit.nl]

My laptop is called xontros-gatos, which in my native language means fat-cat. Similarly, my server is called server-cat, a small laptop that I have for testing stuff is called small-cat and a new laptop that I just got is called fatter-cat.

I LIKE CATS I LIKE CATS I LIKE CATS I LIKE CATS I LIKE CATS I LIKE CATS I LIKE CATS I LIKE CATS

[corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca]

Colour + noun:

• redbug
• bluecar
• yellowboat

[jpakx4@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

My phone's name is "Samsung Smart Fridge" because I think it's hilarious if someone is looking at hotspots or network info and go "what the hell is a fridge doing here-"

[teawrecks@sopuli.xyz]

I use zerg units.

• NAS is named Nydus
• Homelab with a GPU is Hydralisk
• Jail instance that I can use for random cron jobs is Drone

[killabeezio@lemm.ee]

I have to ask, why start with 0? I never understood this with infrastructure. I would do something like 00000 if I did numbers so it would be easy to sort, but I always started with 1. I'm just curious.

[Guest]

• Knowledge - Desktop
• Enlighten - Laptop
• Insanity - Server
• Madness - Router

[structureofchaos@lemmynsfw.com]

localhost

Why: for privacy/anonymity concerns

[clif@lemmy.world]

Mine are named after the penguins from the Madagascar movie : Skipper, Private, Kowalski, and Rico.

Unfortunately there's only four so I often supplement with a suffix. For example, I've got an old windows laptop kicking around that is "rico-w"

... I should really commit to a naming scheme with a wider array of options.

[monkemischief@lemmy.today]

For my ProxMox server stuff I went with Lord of the Rings. The idea being the servers would be locations and the VMs would characters.

So right now my main server is Rivendell, and my PiHole on it is Gandalf ("You shall not pass!" Heehee eventually he'll have OPNSense too...)

If I get HomeAssistant at some point, obviously that'll be Samwise!

My Klipper VM for 3D printing is Celebrimbor, and the individual printers are named after various deities or myth figures of crafting/smithing/creativity like Brigid and Eitri.

For my client devices, I name my personal hardware after BattleTech mechs and that works well. It's intuitive because I can line up various roles and weight classes.

So my main desktop is Timberwolf, and my laptops are named after light mechs like Kitfox or Mistlynx.

Phones and tablets I don't really care about, they usually just name themselves after their model anyway.

[monkemischief@lemmy.today]

Gotta say, from what I've heard from the trenches, "insanity" and "madness" sound like fantastic names for printers or print servers, but the router also makes perfect sense! Lol

[monkemischief@lemmy.today]

That's hilarious. Now I wanna set up a Wi-Fi hotspot with that SSID at a local library or something for lulz.

Something like "LG Dishwasher".

[monkemischief@lemmy.today]

"Scale with more ProxMox nodes? Don't you mean

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