What host names do you use?
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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.
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.
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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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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.
Why limit yourself to the penguins?
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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 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.
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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)
My two wifi bands have always been Castor and Pollux.
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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 just memorise the IPs lmao. then again I only have 1 or 2 hosts up on my network ever
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Why not Saṃsāra? Or maybe it's Rin'ne in Japanese?
I have been saving that one for when I get a framework laptop
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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.
What names has this process come up with?
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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!
For my servers I try to use names from the Final Fantasy universe. Lately been focusing on FFXI end game bosses.
Kirin (opnsense firewall)
Byakko (proxmox host)
Tiamat (proxmox backup)
Shiva (Nas)The only clever virtual machine names I care to brag about are:
DockBox (VM running docker)
Jellxc (proxmox lxc running jellyfin) -
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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Why limit yourself to the penguins?
Yeah... I should expand. The penguins are just my favorite part of those movies and it matches the Linux motif that I started with yet falls apart, you know, when I name a windows laptop
rico-w: P -
Where's Demogorgon?
Just to the left of Demimoore.
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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!
Characters from the Murderbot Dairies, mostly
- main laptop (t480 currently) -- Murderbot;
- previous main laptop (x270) -- MB20;
- homeserver -- ART;
- a TV box running armbian -- Miki;
- t440p is currently Behemoth (from Bulgakov's "Мастер и Маргарита"), although I'll probably rename it to Holism;
- x230t -- Three;
- a random thin client I occasionally use to test stuff is yogurt (from" love, death & robots"), not sure if I'll rename them.
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