i'm not good with names.

my server's name is... server

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.

• poweredge-t620-0
• poweredge-t620-1
• poweredge-r520-0
• macbook-2011
• pi-0 through pi-3

having 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.

Desktop: Cerberus (triple monitors)
Media server: Alexandria
Firewall: Hadrian

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 - thebox
Server - thecloud
Phone - thewand
Tablet - theportal
Home assistant - theoracle

Not too creative, but it works.

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 🏴‍☠️

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.

@[email protected] @[email protected] some version of cat sounds: meowmeow, purrpurr, naunau, etc.

Oh god.

Mine are:

• Livingroom
• Basement
• Bedroom

My PC is named Shai'tan, and my laptop Astraea. As for why, it's because I am into fantasy.

All my servers are named after colors

Then my vms are ingredients to an omelette

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.

I used fictional locations:

• Server 1: valinor
• Server 2: terminus
• Main pc: isla-nublar

Users are named after movies or tv shows characters when I'm not using my name

Everything starts with rum, like my username, for some reason. My phone is "rumpixel" and my desktop is called "rumtower".

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

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.

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 Proxmox server is named Atlas, as the titan holding up my network.

My VMs on the proxmox server are named:

• TrueNAS (I didn't have a good name)
• Poseidon for my docker server (Something something docker -> whale -> ocean)

I also have a raspberry pi running for testing out some stuff. It's named Eileithyia after the greek goddess of birth.

My Nas is named Optimus my Mac Plex server is named Macsimus

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)

Really uncreative, but: $myInitials-desktop $myInitials-server $myInitials-laptop

With my username being…. $myInitials. Surprising, really. Boring, but consistent. :)

• My desktop is Aperture
• My wife's desktop is Dovahkiin
• My wife's laptop is Lyndis
• The printer is Vaarsuvius
• The firewall is GlaDOS
• The file server is Atlantis

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

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 swords
Odachi - Server
Katana - Desktop
Wakizashi - Laptop
Tanto - Phone

I name my machines after planets in the Dune universe.

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.

London Underground themed. Where possible the station name somewhat reflects the purpose of the machine. Some names are shortened.

• Bank: NAS server
• Barbican: Jellyfin server
• Paddington: Pi-hole
• Piccadilly: Raspberry pi
• Heathrow: Proxy manager

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.

Huey, Dewey, and Louie.

I give them all Warhammered Latin hostnames like TABULARIUM-MAGNUS.

Dune references. Caladan, Duncan, Arrakis.

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.

hydrogen, helium, lithium and beryllium

I've gone for a Neon Genesis Evangelion theme, so my router is SEELE, my Pi server is TheMagi, Thinkpad is Unit-00, Laptop is Unit-02, work device is Unit-03 (waiting to build my gaming PC for Unit-01). Then my SimpleLogin aliases are weapons like the sonic knife or lance of longinus.

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.

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?

Punt speedchunk (MST3K reference)

In theme with my username:

• apollo (router)
• moon-base (proxmox host)
• moon-rover (previously my laptop, it died and now it's my steam deck)
• moonshot (desktop)
• moon-lander (phone)

My VMs are uninterestingly named after what they serve. Also I'm not touching my partner's machines, that stuff is not my problem.

My main PC is all white (by coincidence) so I named it Minas Tirith

Previously by color/occupation.

Red Desktop, Music Workstation.

Been thinking themes more recently though. WolvesDen for my server, thinking of expanding on that some.

A self built PC called "The Thing" and "The Beast", which is a raspberry pi.

My laptops and RPis aren't named anything interesting. My server is named Lyla though. I let my youngest kid pick the name.

My personal PCs/VMs are named after fairies from Pixie Hollow. (Silvermist, Zarina, Rosetta)

I've got menus and stuff orange on Rosetta. :)

My systems have names of Jupiter's moons. The main devices are named like the four Galilean moons.

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.

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

Work laptop is dangerzone

• crispy (big server) - was suggested to me, no special meaning
• invader (desktop PC) - no special meaning
• mulex-copan (MacBook) - named after the coffee machine in the game INFRA
• polaris (mail server VPS) - reference to the game Control
• spike (VPS) - no special meaning (though I was probably thinking of the coronavirus spike protein)
• turris (router) - just the router brand which sounds cool so I kept the hostname
• vineta (NAS) - named after the planet from the game SIGNALIS
• whiprock (phone) - named after the island from the game INFRA

the names with no special meaning are generally older while the game references are generally newer :P

I started using star names a long time ago and never had a reason to change (night sky - not Hollywood, though those are good choices too).

My NAS is named "lil-nas-s". Everything else has boring names, my proxmox host is just named "proxmox".

My server is named ubuntu. You can guess why. My laptop is named MacBook-Air, because I didn’t change the default.

I’m thinking of naming my next server GladOS and the desktop Wheatley.

Albatross and Nautilus. Not really sure why, just like the sound of the words and the nautical theme. I still have 2 or 3 laying around unnamed because I haven't thought of any good words that fit the theme

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

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

At home I name all devices after characters or planets from Ready Player One and Two. WadeWatts, parzival, daito, shoto, halliday and OASIS are my PC, laptop, phone, router, NAS or WiFi. I also have servers named ir0k, art3mis or halcydonia. I remember working at a science project years ago with lots of workstations, where we named them all after James Bond villains like Stromberg, Goldfinger or Scaramanga. Eventually we ran out of villains and had to number them. 🙃

Mush bevause my windows VM is named Room

I started naming all of my devices based on their number mk1-mk6, then I realized it's hard to differentiate desktop from phone off a list. Now I've got: Mkr1 - rack server Mkp6 - phone 6 And desktops/laptops are just mkX depending on age. Then set static IPs based on their number

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.

• Desktop - Eldritch Mythos
• Laptop - Elder Thing
• Phone - Shoggoth

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.

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.

Daedalus, because I like the sound of it.

The Void - My phone

My computer? Nikkis-pad, cause it always sat ontop of my big ol desk mousepad.

My phone???
Cream daddy of the abyss.

No I will not tell you why

Desktop. Tablet. Garage. Pretty straightforward at my place lol

All ~60,000 servers are given 32-bit UUID's, plus a 3 word CNAME from 3 unique and distinct lists of nouns. i.e. a server would have an A record of 1b30fafd-0a28-4999-b51f-bfa2b8af68e5 and a CNAME of tiger-ball-hill. A few servers that I often SSH into will be given friendly cnames like "bastion1" or "ansible" or something like that.

Nice try, fed. :P

Canadian islands because I ran out of bears.

I used to name all my devices and servers after old timey womens names but I gut lazy. Now they are named mostly by function.

My machines are named after physicists and mathematicians because that's what I aspire to be. I don't remember the first three, but the most recent ones were Descartes, Euclid, Fourier, Gauss, Hilbert, Ivakhnenko, Jacobi, Kepler, Lovelace, Mandelbrot, Newton, Oppenheimer, Penrose, Quillen, Russell, Silverman[1]. Next will be Turing.

EDIT: The network storage is named differently.

• [1] Named after Ruth Silverman, not Joseph.

I use the periodic table of elements to name them.

@JuxtaposedJaguar Animals that I find cute or funny:

Rabbit, Seagull, Turtle, Mola-mola, ...

My laptop's hostname is xontros-gatos (which in Greek means fat cat)

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...

I use famous computer scientists. Torvalds, Kernighan, Ritchie, Woz (for the MacBook). My most recent one was bought in Hampton VA, so I named it kjohnson after Katherine Johnson (as seen in the movie Hidden Figures, she used to work at the NASA facility in Hampton).

I think it's a good system, and I don't think I'll ever run out!

"The Cool Side of the Pillow"

(I only have the one)

computer, laptop, single board computer name, auto, build server

I name devices after what their purpose is and what they do + number.