What host names do you use?

[mnbychoice@midwest.social]

At home, colors
Whatever color the purpose is.

[majorhavoc@programming.dev]

All swearwords, all the time. Generally puns on the servers purpose.

[atheartengineer@lemmy.world]

All my personal devices are named "AHE"+n. So the abbreviation for "at heart engineer"+ a letter signifying the device. So my phone is "AHEM", my laptop is "AHEL", my desktop is "aheo" (O for office), my server is "ahes".

[higgsboson@dubvee.org]

My first computer job was at a college that used names from ancient history and mythology. So I mostly still do that. Medea is my plex server. Zeus and Hera are the hosts for docker and VMs. Heimdall is the router.

The only break in the pattern is my storage, which is currently NASC and NASD...

[higgsboson@dubvee.org]

Very German of you.

[higgsboson@dubvee.org]

I skimmed that article but didnt get the joke until I came back. BRB, making a new gmail account.

[higgsboson@dubvee.org]

My PC was HAL_9000 for over a decade. It got tedious to type, so it's now just "box."

[clemax@lemm.ee]

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[Guest]

Ha I like it. Yeah I skipped the underscore/hyphen for that reason.

[gofsckyourself@lemmy.world]

Jabba could've been NalHutta

[appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Backup: VEEAM01
DC: DC1
VM for taxes and other stuff I don't want on my main pc: ZAHLNIX01 (tl: not paying anything)
NAS01: My NAS file share VM
TEST01: Testing VM
Appoxo-PC2: My main PC (as it's mark 2)
Proxmox host: PVE2 (I planned a cluster but have no other nuc to use in the cluster)
NAS: Current jellyfin and main docker host
PiNAS02: My Raspberry Pi 4

As you see: Very creative.

[phr34ky@lemmy.world]

Server (big iron): Bender
Desktop (main character): Fry
Laptop (for accounting): Hermes
Netbook (small and dumb): Nibbler
Phone (held to my head): BrainSlug
HTPC (one big viewport): Leela

[know_not_scotty_does@lemmy.world]

I named my old white bitfenix prodigy m "Baymax" because it was white and had rounded edges.

[xartle@lemmy.ml]

I've gone through lots of themes. These days it's mostly where things are or what they are for. Topshelf, closet, code lives on monkey, work laptop is named work. I've had more fun themes but the novelty wore off.

[Guest]

After a long career in tech, one of the things I start to push for when I inevitably take over ops at my new job is to eliminate the silly names.

I don't do it because I hate fun, I do it because when someone yells, "Squirtle has dropped off the network!" I don't want to have to go consult a lookup table to learn that Squirtle is a staging environment postgres replica and not the primary billing database.

As a result, I apply the same standards to my home network without shame.

[alphapuggle@programming.dev]

My server is still called driveway because the install originated in an HP laptop a customer ran over with their car. Motherboard still worked though!

[deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz]

Mine are all named for the colour of the case, or case accent when ambiguous, though network infrastructure items are named for their models, being the typical default.

I sometimes use A records or mDNS-SD for the actual services provided and use a *.home.arpa. domain.

Another theme at another site is native fauna and flora names.

No cringe, no pop culture.

[med@sh.itjust.works]

You had me digging through old hosts files and ssh configs to find some of these.

I try to name them something that resembles what they do or has something to do with what their purpose is.

Short is good, and if it can match more than one of the machine's purpose/os/software/look, the better.

If it's some sort of personal machine, it gets a personal name

Phones

• traveller
• pawn
• rook
• bishop

Virtual Workstations

• boxy

• moxy

• sandbox

• cloud

• ship lxc container host

• dock docker host

Laptops

• ciel Razer blade stealth with a rainbow LED keyboard
• arc runs arch.
• lled is a dell

Desktops

• bench
• citadel
• bastion

[med@sh.itjust.works]

Username checks out

[sxan@midwest.social]

Huh. I thought for sure someone else would be using my scheme.

LAN computers are all Tolkien swords: sting, orcrist, gurthang, glamdring, etc. If I run out of swords, I'll start adding other weapons: aeglost, the spear; dailir, the arrow. We don't get a lot of named battle axes, which I always thought weird; I'd think dwarves of all people would forge legendary axes, and certainly name them.

My WiFi and VPN networks are forests in Middle Earth: fangorn, bindbole, dimholt, lothlorien, etc. The only exception is my LAN itself which is... "lan". Because short.

My cloud VPSes are named after Greek Titans: hyperion, phaethusa, tethys, etc.

Mobile devices have whatever names they come with, because they're so ephemeral.