• Dragnansia@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Normally I don’t change the names that the distribution gives to the hostname, but I’ve been thinking for a while about changing the names to mythological gods or Latin tree names only for server and SBC.

    The only server for which I have changed the host name is now r5700server. r5700 for the processor (Ryzen 7 5700), and server because it’s a server.

  • Gutless2615@ttrpg.network
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    6 months ago

    This has big “lol tell me your mother’s maiden name and your first pet and I’ll tel you what Harry Potter house you belong to!” Energy.

  • Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radio
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    6 months ago

    My first networked computer, on an AppleTalk network was called “()/)/)()”

    It was an Apple Macintosh IIci.

    It had that name for less than five minutes. That’s how long it took the network manager to find me and demand that I rename it to something that didn’t appear at the top of the Chooser, since that’s where the ADMIN NetWare server should be.

    He suggested “ob1”, and that’s what it has been and continues to be for the past 32 years. My laptop became ob2.

    Servers under my custody are called short words, generally four characters or less unless they’re disposable and they don’t get a name beyond what the installation process creates.

    Edit: Oops, one too many slashes. Fixed.

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      6 months ago

      my storage machine is luggage, and i use discworld names that kind of are relevant to the gunction for everything else in my network, too. my robot vacuums name is lu-tze for example.

  • scarecrow365@reddthat.com
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    6 months ago

    I’m a Sysadmin, so my names are purely functional:

    host-pmx-01 through 03, my 3 node Proxmox cluster

    vm-[SERVICE], optional 01-03 if needed

    ct-[SERVICE], for LXC containers

    It makes it easy to reference things via DNS for service discovery.

  • Mithre@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I don’t name my machines anything special, but I’ve started naming my internal hard drives/samba shares after planets, and external drives after moons.