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?

  • rosa666parks@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    13·
    1 year ago

    Anime girls. I want to change but I’m too far gone to have a random name

    Rei - main pc

    Asuna - main server

    Milim - plex

    Aqua - laptop

    Darkness - first plex (the drives failed and lost everything rip)

    Rem - raspi (pihole)

    Ram - second raspi (home assistant)

  • iMeddles@infosec.pubEnglish
    12·
    1 year ago

    Every machine is named after what it does (although I do 1337-ify the names, because I’m still a late 90s IRC teen at heart). If you’ve ever been onboarded into a sysadmin role where all the machines are named with whatever whimsical naming scheme each department chose, you’ll fast develop a visceral hatred for non-descriptive naming schemes. The fifth time you get a ticket saying something like ‘Hedwig is down’ and you have to go crawling through three layers of linked files on SharePoint to find what and where ‘Hedwig’ is, you’ll be ready to beat the person who named it to death, and that attitude tends to persist to your home naming scheme :p

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
      12·
      1 year ago

      The fifth time you get a ticket saying something like ‘Hedwig is down’

      If only there was an excellent database to store where Hedwig.bthl4.sea.wa.goliath.corp was and maybe include an alias so you know it’s NNTP5.goliath.corp also.

      I shall invent one. It shall replicated and synchronize quickly. It shall interface and accept changes and share data. It will be simple to query so everyone can use it. I shall call it DNS . If people get snippy, I shall next invent an HS record.

      Learn to use the tools, man. It’ll help you adhere to a 40-year-old RFC on naming things.

      • 𝓢𝓮𝓮𝓙𝓪𝔂𝓔𝓶𝓶@lemmy.procrastinati.orgEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        I’ll get right on rearchitecting the dns infrastructure of a large sprawling corporation, with mountains of technical debt from decades of acquisitions where they just mashed shit together. I’m sure that project will get approved.

        Don’t be condescending, man.

        • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Well I’m glad you know it’s there!

          I can’t comment on your particular technical debt, as I’m not very psychic. I like how you say not to be condescending and require me to be psychic. That’s cool, but I bet you’re stressed.

          Have a good week.

      • iMeddles@infosec.pubEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Yes, if you’ve built the network from scratch that works. Retrofitting it into an existing network however is a massive piece of work when you don’t have that single source of truth to start with however. On networks I’ve built sensibly, I’ll happily give people whatever CNAME they want to refer to their machine, but the machines actual name is descriptive, not the other way round.

  • A Mouse@midwest.socialEnglish
    9·
    1 year ago

    I use names of mice from popular movies and TV shows. I use this list.

    I know it’s not useful, but it’s fun to me. I would never use it in a professional environment.

  • wheelcountry@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    Personally I use corporate-like naming scheme for my devices, the format is:

    [AABB-CCCC-DDEE]

    AA: Location of the device - HQ (home), CL (cloud).
    BB: Role of the device - HV (hypervisor), SV (server), NW (network) and workstation (WS).
    CCCC: Device brand (for NW), application running (for SV), and workstation purpose (for WS).
    DD: For server and workstation - OS running on the device (WN=Windows, LX=Linux, MA=macOS). For network device - their role on network (RT=router, AP=access point, SW=switch).
    EE: # of the device, year of purchase for WS.

    For example, here’s my router, KASM server and my gaming PC hostnames:

    HQNW-UBNT-RT01
HQSV-KASM-LX01
HQWS-GAME-WN16

    Still trying to optimize this naming scheme, like removing all the dash, but currently too lazy to do it lol.

    • knaak@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      My kubernetes cluster is k3s1, k3s2, k3w1, k3w2, etc. My load balancer is called… lb.home.lan. I guess that we are not as creative.

  • SupremeFuzzler@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    I usually go with characters from the Discworld series. So far I’ve had a Rincewind, Ridcully, Twoflower, Weatherwax, Ponder, Librarian, Luggage, and Hex, plus a router called “The Clacks”. Really ought to get Vimes and crew into the mix, now that I think of it… maybe the next one will be Angua or Carrot.

    • Siegfried@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      Well, now i need to know which ones are and what particular feature of the pcs reminds you of them

  • nothacking@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    Kittybox: old laptop that my cats like sitting on

    Thinbox: new laptop that is thiner then kittybox.

    Tallbox: desktop

    Tinybox: BeagleBone black single board computer acting as server

  • ErwinLottemann@feddit.deEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    Discworld characters. My storage servers name is Luggage, my phone is ‘Ig’, the vacuum is named after a monk.

  • TheGreenGolem@lemm.eeEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    Hell-related, mixed from Greek mythology and Christian mythology.

    • Hades: THE main server. I mean it knows and controls everything
    • Charon: the router. Self-explanatory
    • Hell: my laptop. Its brand is Dell. It’s where all this started.
    • Limbo: my other laptop
  • Madblood@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    All of my machine names are related to Elvis Presley. Elvis has been my desktop PC for years, and I have or have had Priscilla, Lisa-Marie, ColonelParker, Blue-Hawaii, Hound Dog, Memphis, Tupelo, and Graceland. I want to rethink this a bit to have to flow better, maybe have Graceland as my network name, or maybe the router. Also thinking about changing to something space-related or Norse Mythology as the theme.

  • Fizz@lemmy.nzEnglish
    61·
    1 year ago

    Depending on the size of the machine I’ll call it big/large/huge/small/Lil then a human name like John. BigJohn is my main server and hopefully one day he can get an upgrade and become large John.

    • reddthis@reddthat.comEnglish
      8·
      1 year ago

      This, but it’s all suggestive names, such as:

      Big Johnson, Small Richard, lil Peter, Huge Willy, etc.

  • hubobes@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    One of my nicknames is Hugo. I have a Windows, a macOS, a Debian and a Raspbian machine.

    So I call them Hugowin, Hugotosh and Hugopi. The Debian machine mostly runs Plex so it is named Plexy. And my Phone is called iBobes because someone once told me that Bobes mean ass in german and i though that is incredibly funny.

    • d4sm4dd1n@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      FYI: Bobes does not mean ass in german. That’s not even a german word.

      Edit: Maybe they meant “Popo” which is closer to butt/behind in english

      • hansmeiser666@lemmy.worldEnglish
        41·
        1 year ago

        German here, yes it does and it is. It’s not a high German word, but a dialect one (but it’s present in multiple German dialects, mostly all Franconian ones, as well as Hessian and Swabian). Usually it’s written “Bobbes”, though.