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?

  • iMeddles@infosec.pubEnglish
    29·
    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

  • Fizz@lemmy.nzEnglish
    271·
    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
      16·
      1 year ago

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

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

  • marmarama@lemmy.worldEnglish
    182·
    1 year ago

    Ungulates. Because who doesn’t like a hoofed animal?

    My client machines are even-toed ungulates (order Artiodactyla) and my servers/IoT machines are odd-toed (order Perissodactyla). I’m typing this on Gazelle. My router is called Quagga, both after the extinct zebra subspecies and the routing protocol software (I don’t use it any more but hey, it’s a router).

    Biological taxonomy is a great source of a huge number of systematic (and colloquial) names.

  • ErwinLottemann@feddit.deEnglish
    16·
    1 year ago

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

    • 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

  • Pohl@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    1 year ago

    All computers are named after dogs. My dogs, dogs in the family etc. the dog name should be carefully match to the computer’s role and characteristics.

    My peerlessly reliably golden retriever will almost always have a server named after him. The most powerful computer in the house is named after the monstrously large golden my parents had when I was young. My sons gaming pc is fast but perpetually broken, named after our greyhound. Laptops are named for smaller dogs, SBC devices get named after toy size dogs.

    Wi-Fi ssids should always be named after cats.

    This is the natural way of things.

  • thelastknowngod@lemm.eeEnglish
    151·
    1 year ago

    node-0 node-1 node-2 …

    Everything runs kubernetes so the names are mostly irrelevant.

    Years ago I worked at a company who named everything after WoW characters. I wished murder was legal in those days.

  • 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)

  • simshady@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    1 year ago

    A friend of mine names all his hosts afer famous battleships, his dad names every host after Star Trek ships and their wireless networks are all named after LOTR locations.

    As for me, each hostname consists of the device type and the location of the host, no matter if it’s local or a vps in a datacenter somewhere.

  • niisyth@lemmy.caEnglish
    9·
    1 year ago

    I’m incredibly boring. I name them with the company/model name. And what role they have appended.

    • bufordt@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      Cute naming schemes are for people who don’t have lots of servers. At my work we have over 700 servers. We’re not naming them after something arbitrary, we’re being descriptive.

  • 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.

  • lidstah@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    9·
    1 year ago

    Physical machines get stars names: Vega, Arcturus, Polaris, Fomalhaut, Deneb, Antares, Procyon, Algol, Aldebaran… and so on.

    Virtual machines naming scheme is more reasonable: [os]-[role][number if needed]. Examples:

    • alp-proxy
    • talos-controlplane-3, talos-worker-1, talos-worker-6
    • deb-storage
    • techviator@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      I use the same as you for virtuals(os-mainFunction), and similar for physical (brand-lpt/dsk/srv-mainUsage - Len-lpt-VR1, Srfc7-work, hp-srv-pve1).
      I am boring like that.
      I also don’t name vehicles.