I’ve ended up with a number of machines on my network, and a need to name them all in a somewhat logical way. For several years I had them named after the planets, which worked well until the PCs for myself, my girlfriend, servers and Raspberry Pi’s quickly summed up to more than the eight planets. I’ve broadened it somewhat to include any Greek/Roman mythological figure, but the system is definitely not as clean as it used to be.

Do you have a coordinated naming theme for your machines?

  • 𝓢𝓮𝓮𝓙𝓪𝔂𝓔𝓶𝓶English
    6•1 year ago

    I don’t remember where I started, but for a long time it was Firefly characters. I had to dig deep enough to name a system YoSaffBridge.

    Then I switched to gemstones from Steven Universe. Which I still use for mostly for “end user devices”, i.e. desktops, mobile, cars (mine is peridot).

    The functional stuff and the VMs I name by function. Router is router, switches are sw-0#, pihole-0#, minecraft, plex, ipam (yes I have an ipam for my network), etc…

    It’s simpler and I like to be able just ssh/browse to “function” than trying to remember that ipam is on bismuth.

    Years of working for a company that did lots of acquisitions, where I had to deal with integrating whimsically named infrastructure, gave me a strong appreciation for a functional and consistent naming scheme.