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?

  • Don Escobar@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    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.

    <organization or domain><server type><sequence>

    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.