Mimicing a thread I saw elsewhere.
I generally use this list to name my machines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mythological_objects
For my main server I use loeding: a modified version of Lædingr, a chain forged by Thor to bind and were broken by Fenrir. (Norse Mythology)
Since I’m kinda fan of Terry Pratchett, I naturally have HEX at home.
my storage machine is luggage, and i use discworld names that kind of are relevant to the gunction for everything else in my network, too. my robot vacuums name is lu-tze for example.
Nice ones! Since it ain’t a server I haven’t mentioned it, but I had my WiFi ssids named CLACKS.
At home my systems use Star Wars planet names like Naboo, Coruscant, etc.
At work we use Game of Thrones characters (and we’ve somehow exhausted that list…)
My Docker machine - JPL
My NAS - Houston
My Laptop - Artemis
I like NASA.
Currently
s1andt6. I’m not a fun person.My only server is named domino server because just a small change and everything on it will break. Yes, it is that unstable.
- Kubernetes Cluster
- pi-left
- pi-right
- pi-centre
- Other Servers
- pi-katamari (file server & database)
- pi-athens (DHCP, DNS, pi-hole)
- Alexandria (Synology)
- Desktops
- Berlin
- Laptops
- London
- Brighton
- Brussels
- Cambridge
- Toronto
- Phones
- Laconia
- Vulcan
- Bajor
- Kubernetes Cluster
Firebox to run my Firefox. Other servers I’ve dedicated to hosting that I don’t interact regularly with I have been less creative with, usually my username and something to do with the server.
Weatherwax, Ogg, Nitt, Aching, Warbeck, Hamstring and few others
A man of culture I see hahaha. Just like VLC devs.
GNU Terry Pratchett
nuc because it is a nuc and vps because it is a vps.
My first VPS was for a Minecraft server so I named it cobblestone. I’ve kept using Minecraft related names for all my machines since then, and I try to pick ones that are at least vaguely related to the function or appearance of the machine. For example my cluster has brute for the master and piglin01-piglin04 for the workers, but those are the only ones I’ve numbered.
The exception is my two Klipper RPi’s, one is octopi since that’s what it originally ran, and the other is named after the model of the printer. For some reason I never named my printers.
I probably wouldn’t use a naming scheme like this for production servers though - I’d either go with functional hostnames or something like the periodic table which you can pick from arbitrarily. My home servers and clients aren’t cattle though, so I like having a little personality to the names there.
My SYNOLOGY NAS that’s just shy of being used for too much stuff (96% CPU means I’ve got 4% left babyyyy) is, was, and will forever be: Senpai.
That way people (my wife and parents) notice it in the network list.
The gist of rfc1178 is
- don’t name them incomprehensible shit
- don’t name them indistinguishable shit
- don’t name them unpronounceable shit
- don’t name them after their ephemeral purpose (less an issue now since it’s one service per cattle member)
I worked at a shop where it was all ussfllb02 (a Linux load balancer in San Fran) and ukloesto12 (an emc array in London) and that’s how they went all over the globe for like 15 DCs.
But then it got hard to keep the numbers straight, and we’d patch boxb10 instead of 01 or something, and the very real issue where humans can’t keep abstract glyphs in their head for too long became a problem.
I’ll do RedTruck and GreenBoat every time.
I’ve felt the same pain, coming from enterprise environment with strict naming convention. So, of course, at home I avoid that like eating sh*t.
At home my servers are called after my deceased pets, little tribute of their precious time on earth, based on their “capabilities”. Some raspberry pis with small services named after our squirrel and cats and the big ones named after our dogs. That way they continue somehow with us, even after leaving us for more than 15 years.
I use Futurama-based names. It started with my wifi network, which I named Zoidberg, because why not. The NAS is Infosphere, the media server is Hypnotoad, etc.
I always name my PCs with characters from the book I’m currently reading. Here are a few: Teatime, Cthulhu, Dirk, Horus, Binky, Pteppic
It’s pronounced Teatime, sir.
I use names off the list of 22 fallen angels from the Book of Enoch.
It’s a really interesting piece of hebrew apocrypha that details the circumstances leading to the flood. Feels much more high fantasy/pagan myth than the modern bible/torah.
the collection of books of Enoch are wild and pretty crazy if they hold any truth
These names are really fun! Good ones to add to my list…
