What host names do you use?

[sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works]

Nice!

Is devrandom your router or something?

[omega_jimes@lemmy.ca]

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.

[Guest]

Rock types and Greek gods. Everything from emerald to Aphrodite.

[nf999@lemm.ee]

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

[lipilee@feddit.nl]

My little pony. My pihole is pinkypie, mediaserver trottingham, homeassistant is ponyville, and my backup server is canterlot.
And so on...

[structureofchaos@lemmynsfw.com]

Fixes IP for me, but I admit I don't have a lot of services to access to like OP does

[mbirth@lemmy.ml]

I might rename them. So, e.g. if I’d add another Pi5, the existing one would become rpi5-1 and the new one rpi5-2.

[tehn00bi@lemmy.world]

Yeah, my WiFi is called Skynet. My main nas s skynet vault. I have main vm called T800

[teawrecks@sopuli.xyz]

Hah, they're TrueNAS BSD jails, but yes, now I need to figure out how to rename the "Jails" tab in my UI to overlords.

Also, all the extra work my self-hosting endeavors generate is "creep".

[Guest]

I guess with planets it always comes down to that funny one at some point

[coldmoon@sh.itjust.works]

References to The Dark Tower or Murakami characters.

[thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz]

Every computer I own is an autobot. My primary machine is always Optimus Prime, has been since 2008. Other machines get other names generally slightly inspired by their role / nature. Bumblebee and CliffJumper are miniPCs of various persuasions, Preceptor is my "mess around with AI" box, my big server that handles most of my data and network services is Wheeljack, my Macbook is Mirage, my backup server is Powerglide, my TV (which is an old Dell all in One running Linux Mint) is UltraMagnus.

[nomad@infosec.pub]

Used to be names from Neuromancer like "ono-sendai" and variations of that.

Now laptop is "flat", server is named after it's purpose like log, mail, mon, hosting, storage, etc.

[Guest]

I originally named all my hardware after members of the Wu-Tang Clan plus some close affiliates, but I actually ran out of names, so now I use MFDOOM aliases for my workstations, and keep Wu-Tang for infrastructure, because it's for the children.

[notgold@aussie.zone]

First non negative integer so easy for computer to display.

I only really use zero in networking names to correspond with an IPv4 address that ends with dot zero.

I think it's just what you're used to. Like counting bottom to top in teleco versus counting top to bottom in IT.

[Guest]

I use the names of greek deities for my host names, mostly geared towards the function of the server/computer.

• Nyx (dark-blue laptop)
• Hypnos (gaming machine)
• Argus (pi-hole and reverse proxy)
• Prometheus (minecraft server)

[fleetingtit@feddit.org]

Why limit yourself to the penguins?

[caseyweederman@lemmy.ca]

I take a word that's related to the purpose of the new host and put it in an online translator and cycle through languages until I get something cool.

[caseyweederman@lemmy.ca]

My two wifi bands have always been Castor and Pollux.

[merthyr1831@lemmy.ml]

I just memorise the IPs lmao. then again I only have 1 or 2 hosts up on my network ever