What hostname do you give your computers / server?

A random song name from a favorite album.

>inb4 edgelords and their clever ebin maymay names

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>>58086532
names of non-primary historical figures usually for personal stuff.

>>58086532
Some names of pop culture, at the moment characters from Dexter:
dexter, debra, lumen
If I had more to name I'd probably switch to something more meaningful

My PC's name is "-" because it's the only computer in my house and doesn't need a fucking name.

>>58086532
anon@laptop/desktop/server

>>58086532
>RasPi
Name it: "shitputer"

you're welcome

>>58086532
Location / platform / function / number

TACSW12R2VH01 (TAComa / Server / Windows 2012R2 / Virtual Host 01)

SEACW81OF15S07 (SEAttle / Client / Windows 8.1 / Office 15 / Static 07)

Linux systems are usually appliances, but not always

SEAZNLBEX1501 (SEAttle / Zen Load Balancer / EXchange 2015 cluster / 01)

AD sites have the own name, but usually a product code name, like Janus (WFW 3.11, client deployment lab), Wolfpack (NT4 cluster service, Hyper-V HA lab), Monad (PowerShell automation testing), etc.

When AD sites don't follow the above, a state gets used if the site needs something scoped.

>>58087895
Pascalcase would make sense here.
Why not write a yml file with the description and then use its sha-sum?

>>58086532
>burrito
>pasta
>doritos
>cookie

>>58086532
I name my machines after my colorful goat waifus.

kill me.

>>58086532
I could never get past that part.

> a hostname

For some reason

>>58086532
I have a lot of them, so I name them after their hardware. My laptops are Thinkpad and MacBook and the my 4 Ra's Pis are color coded, so the one in the living room is named RPiBlue, the one in the living room is RPiOrange, the one in my bedroom is RPiGreen. Then I have an old desktop machine which acts as a home server which is named DellServer. They all run Debian.

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>>58086532
The name of the distro

>>58087949
Tried it once. People lost their fucking minds, always telling me I've spelled stuff incorrectly.

Names are manually assigned because it helps me prevent sprawl. Except in Monad, where the automation scripting builds the names.

>>58086532
I use gentoo for user and hostname. Doesn't matter which distro

artonelico
solmarta
jakuri
terefunken
harvestasha
horus

>>58086532
place names usually in foreign languages, often finnish/estonian, occasionally scandinavian
it's different sounding enough but not hard to come up with names for that don't sound totally gay

>>58086532
myname(plural)pc

>>58088098
urmomsfatpc

SEA SNIPPER

>>58086532
Cthulhu mythos:
cthulhu
ktynga
ithaqua
shoggoth
pnakotus

>>58086532
Depends widely

Some of our servers are named after greek letters; others are named after foods. Some are named after ex-girlfriends. (I've started using this scheme for my VPSen and VMs)

I named my home machine ‘xor’ because of a combination of factors. My networking stuff is named after stars, galaxies, superclusters etc.

Poisonous plants.
Belladonna
Foxglove
Nightshade etc

The name of the people I've killed

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>>58086532
I name mine after Hidamari Sketch characters.

>>58086532
myname-pc
myname-mac
myname-old-pc
myname-pi
myname-appletv
myname-debian

I am very creative yes.

>>58088652
But clearly your parents weren't.

>>58086532
(nameofdistro)@localhost

Fuck you autists.

>>58086532
Model name if it's a prebuilt, case name if it's one I built from parts.

>T410S
>FRACTALR2

>>58088666
They were clever enough to give me extra chromosomes in case I lose some. So there's that.

>>58086532
I name them after Allah's 99 names.

>>58088530
I named my thinkpad azatoth

>>58088920
you should name it stinkpad
lololol xD

>BUCSI-PC
my personal desktop (after my nickname)
>PAPO-PC
grandfather's pc (after his nickname)
>deskserver
a homeserver, also grandma's facebook machine
>edge
my ThinkPad E450
>pennyworth
future replacement of deskserver, will do homeserver + htpc tasks, named after Batman's Alfred Pennyworth

kanto
johto
hoenn
sinnoh

localhost

>>58088961
lel fkin rekt

I name it like a boat, with a bird's name

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>>58086532
>somethingbox

>>58086532
nick+function

>>58086532
Anon-Desktop
Anon-Laptop

>>58086532
I named my netbook "memelette"

>>58087895
This works. I've always used loc/OS/type/use case/environment/number

ie TACWGHOSTPRD01 (Tacoma Windows general purpose server used as a host in the production environment (primary)).

As noble gases.

localhost

>>58087895
Looks good

In my case, names of German WW2 tanks or Kancolle girl's name

mememachine

VMs get their purpose worked into a name, real machines get their model name.
Sometimes it's a pun.

2hus from EoSD
I'll move onto PCB when I run out

>>58086532
PC

>>58086532
>What hostname do you give your computers / server?
I only have 2 rules:
1: Must start with a letter
2: 8 characters or less (for compatibility with some ancient shit - Lan Manager)

You don't need more than 8 characters for a system name anyway. I cringe at some of the shit I've seen in some data centers:
server-activedirectory-infrastructure-los-angeles-0001.westcoast.domain.com.us

>>58087895
>TACSW12R2VH01
too long. 8 characters or less

>>58088652
>myname-pc
So that every time you go online they know your name.

With my domain name obviously

>>58086532
I mostly use chemical elements.

>>58090143
patrician's choice

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>>58086532
I name my devices after birds:

Hp Spectre - Cardinal
Huge PC - Cassowary
Raspberry - Hummingbird
DVR - Hawk
1st AP - Parrot
2nd AP - Cockatoo
3rd AP - Nightingale
Server - Eagle

and so it goes.
phone - Skylark

>>58091154
That top looks incredibly impractical.

I like it.

You should name your next device "Shrike" and "Grike."

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I name mine after nsa sigint codenames. Most of them sound pretty cool.

>pc: desperado
>notebook: astrolabe
>vm: forger
>cloud: toolbox
>phone: reflection

Putin

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>>what they deserve

>>58086532
Model number of my laptop/desktop/whatever

>>58086532
Jewish names.
Goldberg, Rosensteyn, Blumenthal... you know.

>>58091311
good one, achmed

Pin-up girl names

Main server:overseer
Shit server/test system:butch
Main pc:vaultdweller
Phone:lonewanderer
Laptop:chosen one
Retro/Media pc:Harold

I like fallout

>>58091379
Fuck that's a pretty good idea.

>>58091601
>system:butch
kekd

I use new general catalog names of nebulae that I like

Rauru
Midna
Ganon
Zant

>>58090816
Nope, limit is 15 char, before SMB compatibility breaks. And that's for OLD versions of SMB. Like, DEC old...

I use names of warships. I love Destroyer-types.

>>58086532
root

I just my name and the purpose of the computer.
It's not creative, but it works.

ANON-PLEX
ANON-MAIN
ANON-MAC
etc...

>>58088859
Mashallah, brother

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whatever the manufacturer of the case is plus "...-PC"

>>58086532
My ThinkPad T420 is called "Snoop"

:^)

women from beatles songs

penny, michelle, eleanor, prudence, sadie, lucy, etc

i forget what i used before that, women from shakespeare plays?

>>58086532
I named my primary hacking base: Diego Garcia.

>>58086532
Names of my victims: Darryl, Marcus, Tony, Jaekwon, Tyrone
Fucking rats. People aren't lying when they say Manhattan is rat city. Tyrone was the size of a house cat.

I had some unique ones back in the day, but these days it's generally the first name of an anime girl.

>>58088194
kek

Desktop - misato (because it's a mess)
T420 - motoko
Olinuxino used as a server - snoopy

Mythology names. My first selfbuilt PC I edgily named Prometheus, since he gave us enlightenment in giving us fire.

Then I made a new pc made partially with parts from Prometheus, kind of rebirthing Prometheus. Thus Osiris.

Currently my computer is Odin, who wanders often in disguise. (First dualboot)

>>58096448
Why did you name rats

>>58096607
I only name the ones that I have to hunt down and kill personally. The ones that die from poisons, cats, and traps are not worthy of names.

>>58086532
>sexEQT
>2qawaii4u
>2fyne

Anons-X220
Anons-i5

Etc

Except actual name