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?

  • psykon
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    42 years ago

    Names from various Final Fantasy titles. Playable character names for workstations. Names of summons for servers. Names of cities and locations for networking devices. Names of Moogles for some services that I wanted to give a unique name.

    I generally like to take a whole “universe” for naming schemes. Star Trek is another favoured one, since you get a variety of names in different categories. Characters, Ships, Places, etc.

  • shatteredsteel
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    22 years ago

    At my first job/internship it was fish names (they were dev/qa servers so wiped almost daily): Crappie, Bluegill, Walleye, Marlin, etc.

    Current job is medical so it’s all professional (i.e gr01sec02, gr02sccm01)

    At home I’ve got a couple of naming schemes for different device types.:

    Phones: i-telleuwat(last 4 of the number)
    PCs and Media centers: playon(last octet of the IP)
    Servers:gimme(service thats hosted)

  • circuitfarmer
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    22 years ago

    I have a weird one: years ago I called one machine “nudl” (like using one’s noodle but with a weird spelling). Now I’ve got a few different nudls, a strudl, a dudl, and I think there’s a pudl in the closet somewhere.

  • lutillian
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    12 years ago

    Mine are named after mythical Asian creatures.

    Phoenix, Kirin, Yuki-onna, Dragon, Kodama, etc etc

  • @[email protected]
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    142 years 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.

    • Pyro
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      22 years ago

      At least you didn’t choose Welsh towns or lakes in Massachusetts…

    • @[email protected]
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      12 years ago

      I do Greek goods and Titans which leads to a similar problem. But I just love that my main proxmox host is namend after a Titan with many arms.

  • ABeeinSpace
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    12 years ago

    My Synology is named Atlas because it’s my main file storage box (and has a most of my services running on it).

    My VPS is called Aurora after the atmospheric phenomenon because cloud server.

    And my little laptop I installed a server Linux distro on is called Challenger because I find it challenging to work with Fedora Server sometimes

  • milkjug
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    42 years ago

    I have found my kin here I see.

    Greek god names, Mission code names, uncommon colors, famous mountains, depending on the type of devices. I must have a hundred different ones by now.

  • thelastknowngod
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    142 years 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.

    • @[email protected]
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      2 years ago

      “did you just kill LUN11 or LUN01? Oh no! Let’s hope the backup is okay!” – paraphrased from 9 years ago.

      You know what’s worse than an image you can hold in your head and know you need to work on Gandalf and not Shaggy? “were we decomming uswablsalc108, or was is uswablslca018? Better check again,” and remember why telephone numbers were only 7 digits long.

    • @[email protected]
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      62 years ago

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

  • @[email protected]
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    92 years ago

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

    • @[email protected]
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      62 years 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.