Quite a number of years ago, I had a list of all the internet connected systems on the UC Berkeley campus. The listing ran 30 pages. The Chem Dept. named theirs after elements. The campus "main" machine was UCBVAX. There was series of PDP 11/70 systems (running bsd 2.9) whose names ended with 'a' through 'e'.My first personally-owned computer was named tangle. Given what happens to the wires I think it's a good name for any computer; however, since every machine on the network needs a unique name that 486DX is still the only tangle around here. After suffering a 25 node cluster where each was given a person's name starting alphabetically with ajala for A, I've taken to numbering schemes. For example, the nodes in the super-cheap cluster are named s1, s2, s3, s4 and s5.My main computer has always had devnull as a hostname... since the late 80s. Not sure how many there have been.Sure you aren't just typing the data to /dev/null?
Unfortunately, Fido missed the memo and has been giving portable hard disks unique names based on breeds of cow starting with angus.
It's gotten to point where figuring out a suitable name is the most difficult part of setting up a new system. Right now the soft router for the dog house is called frog. I wonder what name the Pi 5 NAS under construction will have.
Statistics: Posted by W. H. Heydt — Tue Aug 06, 2024 10:40 pm