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)
I got with Ancient Egyptian Deities for everything. (See: my username).
esmeralda
sadly i only have one server for now
Is it a smoky server with a sexy accent?
sadly no she’s a little clumsy
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.
nuc because it is a nuc and vps because it is a vps.
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.
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.
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.
Weatherwax, Ogg, Nitt, Aching, Warbeck, Hamstring and few others
A man of culture I see hahaha. Just like VLC devs.
GNU Terry Pratchett
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.
- Phone: yoda
- Desktop: bb8
- Firewall: c3po
- Switch: macewindu
- NASes:
- anakin
- r2d2
- Wireless APs:
- biggs
- garven
- poe
- typho
- thane
- wedge (virtual controller)
- Proxmox nodes:
- chewy
- hansolo
- obiwan
- Raspberry PIs:
- bobafett
- lando
- jangofett
- quigon
- rey
- finn
Nice try, NSA.
Let’s invent password reveal day instead.
All my machines are named after Autobots.
Same, though I’ve got a couple Decepticons sprinkled in. They all connect to the Allspark ssid.
- 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
