What host names do you use?
What host names do you use?
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. š 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.
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Now let your pants down and tell me all about
your embarrassing host names!
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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
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Finally someone who actually uses a Vostro. Always found that name unreasonably funny.
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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.
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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.
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One possibility could be because in conventional "computer counting" in (most) coding languages, it starts at zero. Like if I make an array of things
[monke, chimp, peanut]monke would be
[0]chimp would be
[1]peanut would be
[2]Once I learned about this concept I started naming enumerated things from 0 usually just to keep a kind of consistency. Maybe I think if it's a habit, I won't make those mistakes as often with code. I dunno. :p
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Use Lua, it uses one-based arrays. This is nice for a few reasons:
- last element is array[length]
- zero can be reserved for the type (especially nice for representing XML: 0 = node name, 1-N = children, named table entries = attributes)
- very rarely see
+ 1and- 1in my code
It feels wrong coming from C, but it's actually really nice, especially since the reasons C does it don't apply (i.e. index is just a memory offset).
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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.