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What is your machine naming scheme? (startrek.website)

submitted 1 year ago by aquova@startrek.website to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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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?

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[–] KelsonV@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I used names of fictional robots, androids and self-aware computers (though I avoided HAL for obvious reasons) for a long time. These days my wife and I usually go with an indirect reference to the function or hardware - Ex. a device named Anathema, or a Raspberry Pi server named Marie (as in Marie Callendar, a former local pie/restaurant chain). I had an expendable frankenputer for tinkering that I called RedShirt.

Currently trying to come up with a name other than Chris for the PineTab 2.

Edit to add: Places I've worked have used Roman emperors, drink brands, Simpsons characters, and of course basics like "IIS1" "MAIL4" "QA-3" and so on. Some would add numbers to the names sequentially, others would use the last octet of the IP address.