[PLUG-TALK] Host Names

[Jeme A Brelin]

On Wed, 25 Nov 2009, Michael Rasmussen wrote:
> Michael Robinson's recent routing post showed he's using
> bird names (goose, dodo) for host names.

Something good came out of one of Michael's threads!

> What's your entertaining hostname scheme?

The first time I built a desktop machine for myself to run GNU/Linux, my 
girlfriend put a huge robot sticker on the front of the case, so I called 
the machine robot.  Later, I moved that machine to a closet to act as the 
server on my new home network and my new desktop was named person since 
the robot was its mechanical slave.  While both of those machines are long 
gone, my laptop it still called person and the fileserver is still called 
robot.  Now I run all my internat-facing services on a rebted UML node, so 
it is naturally called shadow (being intangible).

When bitmine.net had multiple hosts, they were mining related words (and 
not even vaguely suggestive):  shaft, orifice, strip, and screw.

I once built a collection of servers with appropriately selected names 
from the ranks of Cobra including Destro (arms dealer), Zartan 
(shapeshifter), Serpentor (composite clone), and Tomax and 
Xamot (Corsican twins).  I leave guesses about their respective 
configurations as an exercise to the reader.

J.