What host names do you use?
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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.
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I only have 1 box really, it's named Hal. Seems helpful, not entirely sure if it's on my side. Could murder me. I keep an analog shotgun next to it.
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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.
ย
ย
ยNow 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.
ย
ย
ยNow let your pants down and tell me all about
your embarrassing host names!
I named mine after different Half Life characters:
GMAN- Server
FREEMAN- Main Gaming Rig
ALYX- LaptopAnd so on...
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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.
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ย
ยNow let your pants down and tell me all about
your embarrassing host names!
My home network is called The IT Clowd with these devices:
Moss - physical server
Roy - physical server
Jen - vm - main docker host
Richmond - vm - *arr stack
Denholm - vm - monitoring, logging
Douglas - vm - Home Assistant stack
Basement - vm - development server -
Y'all are too creative for me... I have:
- poweredge-r520-0
- poweredge-t620-0
- poweredge-t620-1
- pi4-0
- pi3b-0
- pi3b-1
- pi3b-2
- pi3b-3
- vostro-3525-0
- ideapad-c340-0
This is basically how I do it too.
I used to be more creative but then I got in the habit of running more servers and swapping hardware more frequently so it got harder to remember what hardware I was actually connecting to. Now they get hardware based names and everything else is named by service-based Ansible roles.
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Well I use concepts of games I like. Right now Alan Wake and Pacific Drive are the two of them.
- Main Laptop: Typewriter
- Steam deck: Poet
- NAS: The Lake
- Main Pc, that has become more a render station since I mostly work on a laptop and game on a steam deck: Lighthouse
- Hue Hub: Light switch
- Phone: Flashlight
But when I started to be more interested in networking and installed openwrt on my router, I was more infatuated by Pacific Drive:
- Router: Outer Containment Wall
- WiFi 5/2.4 Dual: ARDAnet
- WiFi for iot: RemnantNet
- GuestNet: OEZone
- VPN: BreacherNet
- Switch: SparkTower
So you wanna tell me your NAS is a Data Lake? ;D
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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.
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ย
ยNow let your pants down and tell me all about
your embarrassing host names!
Iโve always done characters from Beatles songs
- Walrus
- Martha
- Her-Majesty
- Submarine
- MissLizzy
- Blackbird
- NowhereMan
- SgtPepper
- Jojo
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Omnigon: refers to my network and server overall
Terragon: Utility desktop
Pyrogon: Gaming desktop
Aquagon: Laptop
Aerogon: Phone
Sonogon: RPi sound server
Minigon: CyberdeckWhere's Demogorgon?
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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.
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ย
ยNow let your pants down and tell me all about
your embarrassing host names!
All of my infrastructure is named after terminator.
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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.
In the past, I used Gimli's family tree for server names. My main server was called "Thorin". I think I had used Thrain and Gloin.
These days I use Union generals from the civil war:
Sherman - NAS, media server, nextcloud
Thomas - reverse proxy, adguard1
Ellsworth - arr stack
Sheridan - backup server
dockerhost01 - because naming your servers after their function makes a lot more sense. -
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.
ย
ย
ยNow let your pants down and tell me all about
your embarrassing host names!
Rlyeh -host/nas
Cthulhu
Yog
Yibb
Hastur
Hotep
Cylitha -
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.
ย
ย
ยNow let your pants down and tell me all about
your embarrassing host names!
my local hostnames are all David Bowie related. I have:
outside (my laptop)
blackstar (server 1)
starman (server 2)
heros (desktop1) -
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.
ย
ย
ยNow let your pants down and tell me all about
your embarrassing host names!
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
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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.
ย
ย
ยNow let your pants down and tell me all about
your embarrassing host names!
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.
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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.
ย
ย
ยNow let your pants down and tell me all about
your embarrassing host names!
I used the names of the eldrazi from magic the gathering:
Ulamog: desktop PC
Emrakul: NAS / Plex server name
Kozilek: NUC mini PC -
Y'all are too creative for me... I have:
- poweredge-r520-0
- poweredge-t620-0
- poweredge-t620-1
- pi4-0
- pi3b-0
- pi3b-1
- pi3b-2
- pi3b-3
- vostro-3525-0
- ideapad-c340-0
Finally someone who actually uses a Vostro. Always found that name unreasonably funny.
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In the past, I used Gimli's family tree for server names. My main server was called "Thorin". I think I had used Thrain and Gloin.
These days I use Union generals from the civil war:
Sherman - NAS, media server, nextcloud
Thomas - reverse proxy, adguard1
Ellsworth - arr stack
Sheridan - backup server
dockerhost01 - because naming your servers after their function makes a lot more sense.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.
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You have a mighty big hand if you reach l and a with the same one
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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.
ย
ย
ยNow let your pants down and tell me all about
your embarrassing host names!
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.
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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/wordsThis is the way.
