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)
My first networked computer, on an AppleTalk network was called “()/)/)()”
It was an Apple Macintosh IIci.
It had that name for less than five minutes. That’s how long it took the network manager to find me and demand that I rename it to something that didn’t appear at the top of the Chooser, since that’s where the ADMIN NetWare server should be.
He suggested “ob1”, and that’s what it has been and continues to be for the past 32 years. My laptop became ob2.
Servers under my custody are called short words, generally four characters or less unless they’re disposable and they don’t get a name beyond what the installation process creates.
Edit: Oops, one too many slashes. Fixed.
lol, /) kinda does spell A instead of N. But I get it, it’s creative, nice.
|\| N
I just spotted an extraneous slash. I fixed my comment. Hopefully that clears up any confusion.
You’re going to kick yourself in a moment…
What is my name?
Edit: it seems that names are not always visible on Lemmy. If you’re playing at home, my name is Onno.
You should know that not all clients display your display name, some only show your username@instance.
It’s not apparent to everyone that your name is Onno.
Similar to my scheme:
laptop = “laptop”
nas = “nas”
router = “router”
Then if there are more than one in each category I use nas-0, nas-1, etc.
Same thing here, except with a one extra number:
“raspberrypi5”
I have a pi4b called pi4b, a server called Server, an OMV server called OMV and an ARR server called… Arr
I have proxmox called proxmox Docker called docker Postman called podman Router called router Storage called Snapraid but it’s not 4unning Snapraid anymore.
My stuff is named after planets / ships in Star wars.
Server is coruscant
Desktop is malastare
Laptop is anaxes
Portable hard drives are ships
My router is called Jupiter, everything connected to it is named after a moon. Callisto, Ganymede, Thelxinoe, Kallichore are what I’m currently using.
My Proxmox server is called ARCADE and each VM is named after a game. Currently we have:
SpyHunter was a great game (the 3D ones). I still have both (?) for Playstation.
I started with the 2D arcade game of course. Both 3D games (SpyHunter and SpyHunter: Nowhere to Run) are solid as well
I’ve played the 2D very briefly, but it was before my time so I lack the nostalgia and interest. Seeing the car transform was freaking awesome at the time, so futuristic. I was a kid back then and obtaining all secondary objectives was legitimately hard, but provided replay value.
I’d really like to see another, but I don’t know if whoever has the IP has any interest, or is even in business anymore.
This has big “lol tell me your mother’s maiden name and your first pet and I’ll tel you what Harry Potter house you belong to!” Energy.
One place I worked we had a rule - do not name a server for any group using it. It seems the groups become territorial when you try to add a different group to “their” server.
Lastname-Server
I know, I’m boring. But at least my laptop and desktop have cool names:
Firstname-Laptop
Firstname-Desktop
Yeah, I have Featherserver for my server, Featherbeast for my laptop (named because it has decent specs), and Featherphone for my phone.
Forgot about the phone, you’ll never guess what I call that one…
When you have a lot of devices like my family, it just makes everything easier to give descriptive names like that.
It’s not very colourful :)
web01, web02, … db01, db02, … api01, api02, …
You get the idea.
I’m a Sysadmin, so my names are purely functional:
host-pmx-01 through 03, my 3 node Proxmox cluster
vm-[SERVICE], optional 01-03 if needed
ct-[SERVICE], for LXC containers
It makes it easy to reference things via DNS for service discovery.
There is no original thought.
A friend of mine had some explaining to do when he screwed up a dhcp config change and started routing his guest wifi through his “personal” pihole instead of the restricted guest one (he had family/children over often and did not want to be the reason nephew Timmy got an eyeful of wet bush or a beheading).
His family-friendly pihole was at holypi.lastname.local and his private one was creampi.lastname.local
My home assistant is on an old laptop, so obviously it’s names HAL 9000.
