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What host names do you use? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 month ago by Krik@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Hi fellow selfhosters!

What hostnames do you use for your systems and services?
And maybe why if it's an interesting story.

I'll start:
Steam Deck: krax
Smartphone: krix (once I get LineageOS installed again)
MiniPC: krux
Reserved for future use: krex & krox

Creative, I know. 😅 The names have no deeper meaning. The x comes from Linux. That's it.

I know some of you use god names of certain pantheons, such as Thor. But I find that boring as a lot of people are doing that.

Now let your pants down and tell me all about

your embarrassing host names!

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[–] tal@lemmy.today 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Three-letter words that can be typed with one hand, since I have to type them frequently.

$ egrep "^([qwertasdfgzxcvb]{3}|[yuiophjkllnm]{3})$" /usr/share/dict/words

[–] med@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Username checks out

[–] Oisteink@feddit.nl 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You have a mighty big hand if you reach l and a with the same one

[–] UnH1ng3d@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Mine just moves 😉

[–] GreatBlue@infosec.pub 3 points 1 month ago

I'm in the name after location and function fraction. All but my printer, he's named Cthulhu because printers are a menace to humanity and it supports wake-on-LAN.

[–] HyperfocusSurfer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 weeks ago

Characters from the Murderbot Dairies, mostly

main laptop (t480 currently) -- Murderbot;
previous main laptop (x270) -- MB20;
homeserver -- ART;
a TV box running armbian -- Miki;
t440p is currently Behemoth (from Bulgakov's "Мастер и Маргарита"), although I'll probably rename it to Holism;
x230t -- Three;
a random thin client I occasionally use to test stuff is yogurt (from" love, death & robots"), not sure if I'll rename them.

[–] SnachBarr@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I’ve always done characters from Beatles songs

Walrus
Martha
Her-Majesty
Submarine
MissLizzy
Blackbird
NowhereMan
SgtPepper
Jojo

[–] jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I name my devices after greek gods based on what I'm going in life at the time or after what their purpose is.

I named my first gaming PC "Poseidon" when I was doing ship related work. Now it's my server.

My gaming PC is "Asclepius", the Greek god of healing. Built when I got into healthcare.

Hermes, god of messeges, is my lil pi that helps with routing (pihole, pivpn, nginx).

My HTPC is Dionysus, Greek god of wine and parties.

My thinkpad is Persephone cus it looks good but doesn't do much. I might rename it.

The services that I run on these are just named "device-service" e.g. hermes-nginx

[–] grillgamesh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

fuck, this is way better than my current naming scheme of "customer-<devicepurpose>, I'm stealing it for my next setup.

[–] alsimoneau@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

I do the same but Egyptian

[–] Marighost@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

My devices are cringely named after songs in Haken's discography.

Desktop is MESSIAH. Laptop is AFFINITY. Phone is NIGHTINGALE. Steam Deck is SHAPESHIFTER. Router (and its WAP) is PORTALS. My NAS is the only one that falls outside of this, it's generically (last name)NetNAS. I should rename it, but I don't want to break anything 😅

Eta: changed my NAS' hostname is ARCHITECT. Nothing broke! Yay for me.

[–] piranhaphish@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

The printer's name is Marvin, from HHGTTG.

It never wants to work and always complains.

[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Physical machines (except my gaming PC) get Ratchet & Clank character names, and matching labels to go with it. My trusty sidekick Thinkpad T14 G1 is named "Clank". It runs LMDE.

VMs and LXCs get actually-descriptive names, since those are what run my services.

Gaming PC is called "Dagny"; it's a Scandinavian name for "a new day", since that PC was a gift to myself after my divorce. It's currently the only Windows machine in my house now.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Huh. I thought for sure someone else would be using my scheme.

LAN computers are all Tolkien swords: sting, orcrist, gurthang, glamdring, etc. If I run out of swords, I'll start adding other weapons: aeglost, the spear; dailir, the arrow. We don't get a lot of named battle axes, which I always thought weird; I'd think dwarves of all people would forge legendary axes, and certainly name them.

My WiFi and VPN networks are forests in Middle Earth: fangorn, bindbole, dimholt, lothlorien, etc. The only exception is my LAN itself which is... "lan". Because short.

My cloud VPSes are named after Greek Titans: hyperion, phaethusa, tethys, etc.

Mobile devices have whatever names they come with, because they're so ephemeral.

[–] Exhume5947@lemm.ee 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

In the past, I used Gimli's family tree for server names. My main server was called "Thorin". I think I had used Thrain and Gloin.

These days I use Union generals from the civil war:

Sherman - NAS, media server, nextcloud. Thomas - reverse proxy, adguard1. Ellsworth - arr stack. Sheridan - backup server. dockerhost01 - because naming your servers after their function makes a lot more sense.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 1 points 1 month ago

In the past, I used Gimli's family tree for server names.

Oh, that's good.

Middle Earth is a great source for this stuff, b/c Tolkien filled out the world like a historian.

[–] DaPorkchop_@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Y'all are too creative for me... I have:

poweredge-r520-0
poweredge-t620-0
poweredge-t620-1
pi4-0
pi3b-0
pi3b-1
pi3b-2
pi3b-3
vostro-3525-0
ideapad-c340-0

[–] killabeezio@lemm.ee 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I have to ask, why start with 0? I never understood this with infrastructure. I would do something like 00000 if I did numbers so it would be easy to sort, but I always started with 1. I'm just curious.

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

One possibility could be because in conventional "computer counting" in (most) coding languages, it starts at zero. Like if I make an array of things

[monke, chimp, peanut]

monke would be [0]

chimp would be[1]

peanut would be [2]

Once I learned about this concept I started naming enumerated things from 0 usually just to keep a kind of consistency. Maybe I think if it's a habit, I won't make those mistakes as often with code. I dunno. :p

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Use Lua, it uses one-based arrays. This is nice for a few reasons:

last element is array[length]
zero can be reserved for the type (especially nice for representing XML: 0 = node name, 1-N = children, named table entries = attributes)
very rarely see + 1 and - 1 in my code

It feels wrong coming from C, but it's actually really nice, especially since the reasons C does it don't apply (i.e. index is just a memory offset).

[–] peregus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I use Alps bigger peaks for the hosts like:

Castore
Polluce
Lyskamm
Gnifetti
etc.

(yes, mainly from Monte Rosa) and smaller peaks for the VMs:

Grigna
Grignetta
Resegone
Cornizzolo
Palanzone
etc.

[–] VitabytesDev@feddit.nl 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My laptop is called xontros-gatos, which in my native language means fat-cat. Similarly, my server is called server-cat, a small laptop that I have for testing stuff is called small-cat and a new laptop that I just got is called fatter-cat.

I LIKE CATS I LIKE CATS I LIKE CATS I LIKE CATS I LIKE CATS I LIKE CATS I LIKE CATS I LIKE CATS

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 1 points 1 month ago

I bet your whole network is connected by CAT. :P

[–] sk@hub.utsukta.org 1 points 1 month ago

I went with alpha, beta, gamma ...

[–] scholar@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Desktop: Octiron
Laptop: Octogen
Phone: Octarine

[–] sandwichwhiplashparrot@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I do marvel weapons/artifacts:

Phone: Mjolnir

Tablet: Stormbreaker

Laptop: Darkhold

Earbuds: I.C.E.R

Backup NAS: EyeOfAgamotto

Etc, etc 😅

[–] lorentz@feddit.it 1 points 1 month ago

Devices are named after characters from books I recently read, trying to match the name with the character of the book. But for virtual hosts for services I use their purpose (wiki, files, feed…) because I wasted too much time updating all the bookmarks last time I migrated to a new server.

[–] mbirth@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

MacBook Pro: mbp.domain.com
Raspberry Pi 2: rpi2.domain.com
Raspberry Pi 3: rpi3.domain.com
Raspberry Pi 4: rpi4.domain.com
Raspberry Pi 5: rpi5.domain.com
(Yes, I have one of each.)
Synology DS415+: ds415.domain.com
Phone: iphone.domain.com
Watch: watch.domain.com
AppleTV: appletv.domain.com
Nintendo Switch: switch.domain.com

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I am a simple person.

My PC: Panda
My wifes PC: notpanda
Docker VM: dockerhost.home

[–] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Server (big iron): Bender

Desktop (main character): Fry

Laptop (for accounting): Hermes

Netbook (small and dumb): Nibbler

Phone (held to my head): BrainSlug

HTPC (one big viewport): Leela

[–] JPAKx4@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My phone's name is "Samsung Smart Fridge™" because I think it's hilarious if someone is looking at hotspots or network info and go "what the hell is a fridge doing here-"

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That's hilarious. Now I wanna set up a Wi-Fi hotspot with that SSID at a local library or something for lulz.

Something like "LG Dishwasher".

[–] redbr64@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Desktop: HAL9000

laptop: HALjr

Phone: HALnano

Then HALserver, HALprinter (octoprint), HALhome (home assistant) and so on... Big fan of Stanley Kubrick haha

Tried to get the hal9.ooo domain name but it was taken...

Edit: I use Dave as the username, so that in the terminal it is dave@hal9000, which just seems appropriate

[–] shiftymccool@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

My home network is called The IT Clowd with these devices:

Moss - physical server
Roy - physical server
Jen - vm - main docker host
Richmond - vm - *arr stack
Denholm - vm - management, monitoring
Douglas - vm - Home Assistant stack
Basement - vm - development server

[–] isles@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I only have 1 box really, it's named Hal. Seems helpful, not entirely sure if it's on my side. Could murder me. I keep an analog shotgun next to it.

[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Omnigon: refers to my network and server overall
Terragon: Utility desktop
Pyrogon: Gaming desktop
Aquagon: Laptop
Aerogon: Phone
Sonogon: RPi sound server
Minigon: Cyberdeck

[–] BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Where's Demogorgon?

[–] PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Just to the left of Demimoore.

[–] OmniLotus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Knowledge - Desktop
Enlighten - Laptop
Insanity - Server
Madness - Router

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Gotta say, from what I've heard from the trenches, "insanity" and "madness" sound like fantastic names for printers or print servers, but the router also makes perfect sense! Lol