What host names do you use?
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I use names of bones for my different serves. I have metacarpus, clavicle, femur and coccyx.
Ha! Clever and humerus!
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Uhg y'all actually have creative names, here are mine:
My homelab - Pero-base
My main PC - Pero-main
My laptop - Pero-portable
My other server - Pero-webI swear I'm not a narcissist.
Nah, just a huge fan of barley tea.
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Hi fellow selfhosters!
What hostnames do you use for your systems and services?
And maybe why if it's an interesting story.I'll start:
Steam Deck: krax
Smartphone: krix (once I get LineageOS installed again)
MiniPC: krux
Reserved for future use: krex & kroxCreative, I know.
The names have no deeper meaning. The x comes from Linux. That's it.I know some of you use god names of certain pantheons, such as Thor. But I find that boring as a lot of people are doing that.
Now let your pants down and tell me all about
your embarrassing host names!
The printer's name is Marvin, from HHGTTG.
It never wants to work and always complains.
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Places in video games is one option for me especially in cluster setups. EG cluster Tamriel has nodes Morrowind, Skyrim, Oblivion, etc.
"Have you been to the cloud
districtlately? Oh what am I saying, of course you haven't!" -
One possibility could be because in conventional "computer counting" in (most) coding languages, it starts at zero. Like if I make an array of things
[monke, chimp, peanut]monke would be
[0]chimp would be
[1]peanut would be
[2]Once I learned about this concept I started naming enumerated things from 0 usually just to keep a kind of consistency. Maybe I think if it's a habit, I won't make those mistakes as often with code. I dunno.
Use Lua, it uses one-based arrays. This is nice for a few reasons:
- last element is array[length]
- zero can be reserved for the type (especially nice for representing XML: 0 = node name, 1-N = children, named table entries = attributes)
- very rarely see
+ 1and- 1in my code
It feels wrong coming from C, but it's actually really nice, especially since the reasons C does it don't apply (i.e. index is just a memory offset).
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It's the right move.
I tell you, the first time you're sat in front of a CEO and an auditor and you have to explain why the big list of servers has a highlighted one called C-NT-PRIK-5 is when the fun stops.
Explaining that it's short for 'customer network tester Mr. Prickles 5', and is actually a cacti server never really seems to help the situation.
At least a few of the customers got a laugh out of it being on the reports!
I just read this as:
you're sat in front of a CEO
the fun stops.
Agreed. Lol
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You're naming them out of the stuff that specifically isn't space!
"error: hostname must not be left blank." lol
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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".
Not gonna lie before I read your handle I thought these were all named after ways of passively-aggressively clearing your throat.
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Username checks out
? A and L are on opposite ends of the keyboard.
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Three-letter names that can be typed with one hand, since I have to type them frequently.
$ egrep "^([qwertasdfgzxcvb]{3}|[yuiophjkllnm]{3})$" /usr/share/dict/wordsHmm, this wouldn't work well for me since I use Dvorak. All the vowels are on the left and the most common consonants are on the right.
My consonant options on the left hand are: py (top) and jkxb (bottom).
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MacBook Pro:
mbp.domain.com
Raspberry Pi 2:rpi2.domain.com
Raspberry Pi 3:rpi3.domain.com
Raspberry Pi 4:rpi4.domain.com
Raspberry Pi 5:rpi5.domain.com
(Yes, I have one of each.)
Synology DS415+:ds415.domain.com
Phone:iphone.domain.com
Watch:watch.domain.com
AppleTV:appletv.domain.com
Nintendo Switch:switch.domain.comWhat happens if you add another RPi?
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Shit, you're right!
Sounds like a good option for a VPS.
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Fedora is called fed. Ubuntu is ubu. Laptop is laptop
What happens if you decide to use Fedora or Ubuntu on two devices?
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Nice!
Is devrandom your router or something?
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Hi fellow selfhosters!
What hostnames do you use for your systems and services?
And maybe why if it's an interesting story.I'll start:
Steam Deck: krax
Smartphone: krix (once I get LineageOS installed again)
MiniPC: krux
Reserved for future use: krex & kroxCreative, I know.
The names have no deeper meaning. The x comes from Linux. That's it.I know some of you use god names of certain pantheons, such as Thor. But I find that boring as a lot of people are doing that.
Now let your pants down and tell me all about
your embarrassing host names!
I have pebble, pabble, pibble, rebble, rabble, ribble and nibble.
Though the primary server is old enough that it was from a time when I named everything after Transformers, so it's Shockwave.
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Hi fellow selfhosters!
What hostnames do you use for your systems and services?
And maybe why if it's an interesting story.I'll start:
Steam Deck: krax
Smartphone: krix (once I get LineageOS installed again)
MiniPC: krux
Reserved for future use: krex & kroxCreative, I know.
The names have no deeper meaning. The x comes from Linux. That's it.I know some of you use god names of certain pantheons, such as Thor. But I find that boring as a lot of people are doing that.
Now let your pants down and tell me all about
your embarrassing host names!
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Hi fellow selfhosters!
What hostnames do you use for your systems and services?
And maybe why if it's an interesting story.I'll start:
Steam Deck: krax
Smartphone: krix (once I get LineageOS installed again)
MiniPC: krux
Reserved for future use: krex & kroxCreative, I know.
The names have no deeper meaning. The x comes from Linux. That's it.I know some of you use god names of certain pantheons, such as Thor. But I find that boring as a lot of people are doing that.
Now let your pants down and tell me all about
your embarrassing host names!
Asterix & Obelix themed.
- Asterix is a rpi4, strong and small with ssd running dockers with homeassistant, revproxy and webserver, and camera storage.
- Idefix is a rpi3, mainly test only nowadays.
- Obelix is my desktop running voidlinux.
I used to have Pneumatix which is the mailman as the mail server and Panoramix, the druid, as domoticz server, Heroix, chief, as firewall and Bellefleur, beauty, as webserver
All were LXD virtual servers on a pentium 3. I try to find a character matching the functionality. Except for domoticz all are now dockers on Asterix, so less use of funny names.Non linux machines would be roman names from Asterix & Obelix, but I have none ..
At work we used famous dogs. Laika, Pluto, Cerberus etc
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Hi fellow selfhosters!
What hostnames do you use for your systems and services?
And maybe why if it's an interesting story.I'll start:
Steam Deck: krax
Smartphone: krix (once I get LineageOS installed again)
MiniPC: krux
Reserved for future use: krex & kroxCreative, I know.
The names have no deeper meaning. The x comes from Linux. That's it.I know some of you use god names of certain pantheons, such as Thor. But I find that boring as a lot of people are doing that.
Now let your pants down and tell me all about
your embarrassing host names!
My little pony. My pihole is pinkypie, mediaserver trottingham, homeassistant is ponyville, and my backup server is canterlot.
And so on...
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Hmm, what does localhost.local do if you use mdns?
Also, your router must be a bit confusing:
- localhost - 192.168.1.2
- localhost - 192.168.1.3
- ...
Fixes IP for me, but I admit I don't have a lot of services to access to like OP does
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What happens if you add another RPi?
I might rename them. So, e.g. if I’d add another Pi5, the existing one would become
rpi5-1and the new onerpi5-2.
