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

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I use a naming convention for my homelab stuff that is descriptive enough for future reference in case I don't touch the machine in a while.

so for example if you have a local domain you use for internal work and the name is Leet Hax my naming would look something like this

leethax_prd01, leethax_prd02, leethax_proxmox01, leethax_nextcloud01, leethax_plex01

you get the idea, in my network I don't add the underscore but I figured for explanation sakes I would here. I'm sure without explaining what each server is, whether it's a VM from proxmox or an actual machine, you know what they are when they show up on your router. I added the sequence numbering for future proofing my self hosted setup in case I get another machine in the future.

I name my personal devices after Nasa projects and launches and my wife, well her phone is just called iPhone 1, 2, 3 etc. so everything is easy to spot on my home network.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My pixel is named iPhone.. lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Hahaha I started naming my things weird shit to throw people off but you took it to the next level, I’m definitely renaming my pixel too