Ask HN: How do you choose a hostname for personal devices? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: How do you choose a hostname for personal devices?

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Post by hbogert » Mon, Jul 29, 2024, 7:49 AM UTC

3np wrote: post #21

Pokemon. Bonus: If you remember the numbers and do static assigment, now you have a scheme to map names to IP addresses in your head. An old Pokemon poster becomes an address lookup table. Any familiar theme with an ordering (periodic table?) should do the same!

1,025 Pokémon.. if only it was three less it would've fitted in a /22. Alas, /21 it is.

Re: Ask HN: How do you choose a hostname for personal devices?

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Post by ochronus » Mon, Jul 29, 2024, 8:59 AM UTC

I use Japanese god/goddess names :)

Re: Ask HN: How do you choose a hostname for personal devices?

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Post by mustardo » Mon, Jul 29, 2024, 12:06 PM UTC

One place I worked at used Red Dwarf characters, Hollister, Cat, Toaster, Rimmer etc

TV show characters can be good

I normally use Greek gods for snowflake servers

A concatenation of owner / location and device for LAN devices. JohnsPixel4, LoungeTV,

Re: Ask HN: How do you choose a hostname for personal devices?

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Post by teddyh » Mon, Jul 29, 2024, 1:17 PM UTC

tzs wrote: post #60

teddyh wrote: post #36

RFC 1178 has you covered: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1178.html >

From that RFC: "Some more suggestions are: mythical places (e.g., Midgard, Styx, Paradise)" Midgard is not mythical.

Midgard is just as mythical as the Kali Yuga.

Re: Ask HN: How do you choose a hostname for personal devices?

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Post by Crono » Mon, Jul 29, 2024, 5:30 PM UTC

Characters from Beyond Good and Evil.

Re: Ask HN: How do you choose a hostname for personal devices?

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Post by elseleigh » Mon, Jul 29, 2024, 8:52 PM UTC

For twenty years I've used early church fathers, one device for each letter of the alphabet. So Ambrose, Basil, Clement, Dionysius. When a device is retired, a new device can take that letter of the alphabet with a different name, so Ambrose is replaced by Augustine, for example.

Re: Ask HN: How do you choose a hostname for personal devices?

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Post by barking_dog » Tue, Jul 30, 2024, 8:23 PM UTC

I use Seinfeld characters - major characters for main servers, minor characters for other, tangential servers. Not very original, but works for me :)