What are your computers named?
My main server is named Postulate (an idea that you assume for the sake of argument), my desktop is named Axiom (a proved postulate), and my backup server is named Corollary (an idea that follows from an axiom).
What are your computers named, and why?
i'm not good with names.
my server's name is... server
Currently running server3 after some mishaps including a torched OS drive 🫠
Ive named mine quite similarly: officeServer, bedroom1server, atticServer…
Calculon - Workstation
Flexo - Gaming laptop
Bender - Intel Nuc/HTPC
Hmm my Synology NAS is called Syn, I need to find a more appropriate name for it.
Mine are also Futurama;
Huh. 3 different people here using Futurama names.
Clamps
You might be onto something
poweredge-t620-0poweredge-t620-1poweredge-r520-0macbook-2011pi-0 through pi-3having read all these other comments, i'm now feeling like i should come up with a more creative naming scheme... for what it's worth, my phone is named bob.
I recommend flavours of popcorn: Caramel, Cheesy, Buttery, etc. And Bob.
I don't name my computers, but usually name my OS drive Brain and the media drive Pinky.
Servers and computers get Ankh-Morpork street names.
The robot vacuum cleaner is GLaDOS.
I name mine after Futurama characters because there's a lot of them and I found a cool icon set to use.
Desktop: Cerberus (triple monitors)
Media server: Alexandria
Firewall: Hadrian
Damnit, I'm boring af. Machines are named by their model for laptops/consumer devices and buy their CPU for home built stuff.
Except for Crimson-Binome.local 🏴☠️
All my servers are named after colors
Then my vms are ingredients to an omelette
Desktop - thebox
Server - thecloud
Phone - thewand
Tablet - theportal
Home assistant - theoracle
Not too creative, but it works.
Game console/system/computer. The DM.
Haha, I like it
I once named a load of servers for a helicopter company in the UK with elements. The cluster nodes were copper, silicon, etc. The cluster itself was called iron. The volumes were labelled fe_function.
It worked - it was easy to read and the bits that implied "cluster" were grouped appropriately. All the other servers had random elemental names unless they were associated in some way, in which case the group would be used. The engineers (real engineers with oil or distressingly nasty lubricants in their veins) loved it - it made sense, without being too quirky. It was very legible.
When those systems were hoicked out and replaced, the usual nonsense was applied: 2 char country code + 2 char site code etc etc ad nauseam. Followed by my absolute pet hate: 01. Oh so you might need 99 domain controllers? Yes you might, but not on one site.
Let's face it, it is mostly AD admins who don't get hostnames. I blame MS - their docs and blogs strive to be ... authoritative or at least look so. An entire generation (possibly two) of sysadmins have been sold up the river by MS and their wankery.
I completely agree with the "01" problem, it should be "001".
Single digit is great but then one service needs more than ten, or you keep rolling them over into new ones (one of our production server is 13 because it's the thirteen generation). But then I want all the numbers of have consistent patterns, so if one has two digits, they all have to have it.
But I'm not allowed to name servers anymore.
My PC is named Shai'tan, and my laptop Astraea. As for why, it's because I am into fantasy.
Are you crazy, naming the Dark One like that?!
I feel like I can't be the only immature one here...
My NAS is called AY-NAS.
I've got a bunch of Rpis named things like DANK-SBC, WONK-SBC and RAW-SBC.
@JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml @selfhost@lemmy.ml some version of cat sounds: meowmeow, purrpurr, naunau, etc.
My PC is called "Powderkeg" because it keeps blowing up on me.
Nobody has said it... so I have to say it
Cattle not pets!
All my machines are named 'localhost', welcome to 127.0.0.1 farms
Some farmers name their cattle
framepuncher for the desktop
smolmac for the macmini running all the things that would be more at home on an rpi if the mac hadn't been 50 bucks when pi's were in three digits
the nas is Steve, formerly Ralph. Ralph became the router.
My personal use computers are named after characters from the manga Tearmoon Empire Story, MiaLuna (storage server) - Anne (home desktop) - Ludwig (laptop).
My phones were named after JJBA characters (Jonathan Joestar - Joseph Joestar - Speedwagon)
Small form factor computers for automation are typically named after their purpose, without anything creative (PiMirrorDNS, PineKodi, PiPocket)
Huey, Dewey, and Louie.
I used fictional locations:
Users are named after movies or tv shows characters when I'm not using my name
Really uncreative, but: $myInitials-desktop $myInitials-server $myInitials-laptop
With my username being…. $myInitials. Surprising, really. Boring, but consistent. :)
Oh god.
Mine are:
My stationary devices are named after evil characters from middle earth, ungoliant, gothmog, morgoth etc. Mobile devices are named after good characters, illuvatar, gil-galad, elendil. My dad uses native American tribes for names.
My Nas is named Optimus my Mac Plex server is named Macsimus
Punt speedchunk (MST3K reference)
My personal PCs/VMs are named after fairies from Pixie Hollow. (Silvermist, Zarina, Rosetta)
I've got menus and stuff orange on Rosetta. :)
Everything starts with rum, like my username, for some reason. My phone is "rumpixel" and my desktop is called "rumtower".
But your username starts with rut not rum.
Look, @rutrum@lm.paradisus.day was a little drunk when they chose their username, ok?
I name my machines after planets in the Dune universe.
My Proxmox server is named Atlas, as the titan holding up my network.
My VMs on the proxmox server are named:
I also have a raspberry pi running for testing out some stuff. It's named Eileithyia after the greek goddess of birth.
A five character name in the form of CVCVC that doesn't show up as a common English word. The main reason is that I want my colmena and host names to be nicely lined up, there is a lot of space in there, and it happens to be the pattern of a race of telepaths in my fantasty world where telepathy is loosely based off of IPv6 addresses and REST and remote RPC calls.
Previously, my computer names were based on Lojban gismu based on their use, so names like fraxu (forgive), briju (office), etc.
On the other hand, my dad's computer names are: bob, bob2, bob3, bob4, bob5, bob6, bob7, bob8, steve, bob9, bob10, bob11, bob12, bob13, bob14, bob15, and bob16.
My mother's company were all named off of international currencies (we were doing a stock trading project), so dollar, mark, franc, pound, euro, etc.
My other dad's computers are named after logical constructs: axiom, theory, etc. He was a scientist.
I like your other dad! I'm also a scientist.
I currently only have a craptop, but I've settled on naming them after elements, vaguely based on the power of the machine. My craptop is called hydrogen. I also have a full installation on a USB drive called quark, being less than a full machine/element.
Previously by color/occupation.
Red Desktop, Music Workstation.
Been thinking themes more recently though. WolvesDen for my server, thinking of expanding on that some.
My old desktop, now relegated to torrent/fileshare duty, is named USELESS-BRICK (you can guess why)
My brand new desktop is named SPEEDY-BRICK (you can also guess why)
The Rpi3 and Orange Pi 5 I use for small compute tasks, a printer server, random fucking around, etc are TINY-BRICK-1 and TINY-BRICK-2, respectively.
The random ATX server board that I used to use before the motherboard died was FlatBoard, because it didn't have a case, just a small steel backframe I welded up for it.
I like to have different naming schemes for different device classes.
Desktop computers: Greek gods
Laptops: Elements of the periodic table
Cloud servers: Norse gods
Home servers: Planets of the solar system
Raspberry Pis: Greek titans
hydrogen, helium, lithium and beryllium
I give them all Warhammered Latin hostnames like TABULARIUM-MAGNUS.
SANGUIS DEO SANGUINEO
I like swords
Odachi - Server
Katana - Desktop
Wakizashi - Laptop
Tanto - Phone
Nothing original;
lappy386 - my laptop
desktop (very original)
mainframe - NAS/nextcloud/email
orac - multimedia/jellyfin/photoprism/owntone
bemo (I know, I cant spell) - pihole/unbound/homeassistant/wireguard
Future servers will be named after any TV scifi tech that takes my fancy. (twiki, zen (or was it xen?), data, k-9, ada, marvin, romi, holly, bender, dolores). Any suggestions?
Ha! I love "lappy-386". I miss Strongbad emails. Especially the Halloween ones. And Trogdor.
London Underground themed. Where possible the station name somewhat reflects the purpose of the machine. Some names are shortened.
Wireless access points named as DLR stations.
Network hardware named as Underground lines.
Station names can be chosen based on their zone to indicate physical location. Zone 1 in the house etc.
My laptops and RPis aren't named anything interesting. My server is named Lyla though. I let my youngest kid pick the name.
My main PC is all white (by coincidence) so I named it Minas Tirith
My servers have names of Spanish words humorist El Risitas says in his mythical video where he laughs with no real reason.
The biggest server is named "cocinero", because I can (jokingly) easily imagine a very fat cook.
Then there is plancha, a lenovo thinkcentre which has the size of a plank.
My raspberry pi's have names of tapas: chorizo, keso etc.
I name them after their case or purpose. My truenas is just called truenas, its plex jail is just called plex, my laptops are yoga and starlite because those are their product line names. Desktop is frame because it uses a masterframe 700.
I am not very imaginative with naming things. And when I do get imaginative I just appear to have a mental disorder. My BG3 characters are Scrimpus, Scrompus, and Screeper.
Atomic barbie and my phone is jabrone
As for why, I don't know why I originally went this route. The phone is a Pixel 7, so it's name was inspired by the meme.
My servers all are named after their purpose, no theme for them lol.
My computer names don't really have a pattern.
Desktop is Neutron, NAS hyperion, old server exscape.
Disks have names from astronomy. Cassiopeia, Andromeda, Pegasus, Orion.
I just recently named my large NAS RAIDZ2 array Laniakea.
Welcome to Cybertron:
Inferno - firewall
OmegaSupreme - hypervisor host
Cliffjumper - ssh jumpbox
Daytrader - webserver
Metroplex - Plex server
WheelJack - my PC
Not the most famous Transformers, but I try to keep the names relevant.
(There's more, but that's all I can think of off hand)
I started at the top of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_presidents_of_the_United_States and only take their first names, right now I'm at:
jeena@Abraham:~$ hostname Abraham
Is there a james1 and a james2?
No, I just jump over them if they're duplicates.
I'm pretty boring
HTPC (a vestige from when I used it as such, but now it's basically a Plex server and torrent box)
BIGNAS
HUGENAS
(My name)LAPTOP
Poor Avahi must get slaughtered on public networks.
A self built PC called "The Thing" and "The Beast", which is a raspberry pi.
In theme with my username:
My VMs are uninterestingly named after what they serve. Also I'm not touching my partner's machines, that stuff is not my problem.
Mine are all named after mythological creatures. It started with my tower being named Cerberus because it had 3 red LED fans and then just kept up from there. Hydra, Thoth, manticore, chimera. I'm deploying Baba Yaga this week, and Ratatoskr will be up eventually
Lazarus: My desktop PC that randomly died one day and would only work again after literally every component was replaced.
Akamas: My Fairphone 4, named after the son of Theseus, which was my Fairphone 3.
Maybe you should have named your desktop Theseus because of his ship.
I mean, yeah, given how I replaced everything. However, my Fairphone 3 (which, in case you don't know, is designed to have all components replacable) was already Theseus at that time, so I went for the 'resurrection' theme instead
Question:
Let's say I do give my computers a fancy name in /etc/hostname - what do I need to do in order to use the hostname while ssh?
It's not like I have a domain controller resolving the hostname back to an internal ip...
If you mean initiating connections from one computer on your local network to another, you need to install and enable avahi-daemon (or some other mDNS daemon) on the "fancy" one. Your router also needs to support and enable mDNS forwarding, but basically all of them do by default. Then just use your-hostname.local in place of the local IP address, and your computer will automatically resolve it using mDNS. It's different than regular DNS, so it doesn't need any special configuration to use it. And word to the wise: don't use uppercase or special characters in your hostname.