Hi fellow selfhosters!

What hostnames do you use for your systems and services?
And maybe why if it’s an interesting story.

I’ll start:
Steam Deck: krax
Smartphone: krix (once I get LineageOS installed again)
MiniPC: krux
Reserved for future use: krex & krox

Creative, I know. 😅 The names have no deeper meaning. The x comes from Linux. That’s it.

I know some of you use god names of certain pantheons, such as Thor. But I find that boring as a lot of people are doing that.  
 
 

Now let your pants down and tell me all about

your embarrassing host names!

  • DaPorkchop_@lemmy.ml
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    2 天前

    Y’all are too creative for me… I have:

    • poweredge-r520-0
    • poweredge-t620-0
    • poweredge-t620-1
    • pi4-0
    • pi3b-0
    • pi3b-1
    • pi3b-2
    • pi3b-3
    • vostro-3525-0
    • ideapad-c340-0
    • killabeezio@lemm.ee
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      2 天前

      I have to ask, why start with 0? I never understood this with infrastructure. I would do something like 00000 if I did numbers so it would be easy to sort, but I always started with 1. I’m just curious.

      • notgold
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        11 小时前

        First non negative integer so easy for computer to display.

        I only really use zero in networking names to correspond with an IPv4 address that ends with dot zero.

        I think it’s just what you’re used to. Like counting bottom to top in teleco versus counting top to bottom in IT.

    • Toribor@corndog.social
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      2 天前

      This is basically how I do it too.

      I used to be more creative but then I got in the habit of running more servers and swapping hardware more frequently so it got harder to remember what hardware I was actually connecting to. Now they get hardware based names and everything else is named by service-based Ansible roles.