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

submitted 3 years 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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[-] ErwinLottemann@feddit.de 17 points 3 years ago

Discworld characters. My storage servers name is Luggage, my phone is 'Ig', the vacuum is named after a monk.

[-] genuineparts@feddit.de 7 points 3 years ago

Same, but mine is specifically "The Watch"-Characters. Proxmox is Vimes, NAS is Colon, Pi is Nobby, Linux VM is Angua, Windows VM is Carrot, and so forth.

[-] dendrichor@lemm.ee 4 points 3 years ago

I use Discworld geography for physical devices. VMs have character names.

[-] hansmeiser666@lemmy.world 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

the vacuum is named after a monk

Lu Tze?

[-] ErwinLottemann@feddit.de 2 points 3 years ago

Yes! 🤣

[-] hansmeiser666@lemmy.world 1 points 3 years ago

Makes perfect sense, with him always sweeping the Omnian gardens 😄

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