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
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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'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.
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
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.
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.
My systems have names of Jupiter's moons. The main devices are named like the four Galilean moons.
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
Dune references. Caladan, Duncan, Arrakis.
Mine are also literary. They are references to Sanderson's cosmere series and the names chosen reflect their purpose.
I have an old optiplex SFF which is called Preservation because it has a disk drive for ripping media, it's a disk wiping station for repurposing drives, and it's old hardware I'm preserving.
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
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.
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.
Desktop. Tablet. Garage. Pretty straightforward at my place lol
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).
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
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- 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
My NAS is named "lil-nas-s". Everything else has boring names, my proxmox host is just named "proxmox".
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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.
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.
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
- 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 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
I call my desktop loseldoom but my servers are fugit and opti :P
"The Cool Side of the Pillow"
(I only have the one)
Daedalus, because I like the sound of it.
The Void - My phone
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
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.
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!
Saeki(from less than friends) cause its an unruly bitch that does what it wants