fiendishplan ,

All my machines are named on some variation of David Bowie albums. Outside - my laptop, Blackstar - server 1, Stardust - server 2, etc.

thebardingreen ,
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All my machines are named after Autobots.

jo3shmoo ,

Same, though I've got a couple Decepticons sprinkled in. They all connect to the Allspark ssid.

elDalvini ,

My router is called Jupiter, everything connected to it is named after a moon. Callisto, Ganymede, Thelxinoe, Kallichore are what I'm currently using.

danielquinn , (edited )
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  • 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
PM_Your_Nudes_Please ,

Nice try, NSA.

hakunawazo ,

Let's invent password reveal day instead.

cybersandwich ,

"rocinante" for my proxmox host.

"awkward, past his prime, and engaged in a task beyond his capacities." From don Quixote's wiki page.

It seemed fitting considering it is a server built from old PC parts..engaged in tasks beyond its abilities.

The rest of my servers (VMs moslty) are named for what they actually do/which vlan they are on (eg vm15) and aren't fun or excitin names. But at least I know if I am on that VM it has access to that vlan(or that it's segregated from my other networks).

DeltaTangoLima ,
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  • 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
FarraigePlaisteach ,

Cuan (shelter / harbour)
Gael
Éir

Nibodhika ,

I always name my PCs with characters from the book I'm currently reading. Here are a few: Teatime, Cthulhu, Dirk, Horus, Binky, Pteppic

Infinite ,

It's pronounced Teatime, sir.

gamermanh ,
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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.

tiina85 ,

Weatherwax, Ogg, Nitt, Aching, Warbeck, Hamstring and few others

Nibodhika ,

A man of culture I see hahaha. Just like VLC devs.

GNU Terry Pratchett

DeltaWhy ,

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.

GalacticHero ,

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.

corsicanguppy ,

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.

kurotora ,

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.

blurry ,

nuc because it is a nuc and vps because it is a vps.

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