Selfhosted

39937 readers

397 users here now

A place to share alternatives to popular online services that can be self-hosted without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you don't control.

Rules:

Be civil: we're here to support and learn from one another. Insults won't be tolerated. Flame wars are frowned upon.
No spam posting.
Posts have to be centered around self-hosting. There are other communities for discussing hardware or home computing. If it's not obvious why your post topic revolves around selfhosting, please include details to make it clear.
Don't duplicate the full text of your blog or github here. Just post the link for folks to click.
Submission headline should match the article title (don’t cherry-pick information from the title to fit your agenda).
No trolling.

Resources:

selfh.st Newsletter and index of selfhosted software and apps
awesome-selfhosted software
awesome-sysadmin resources
Self-Hosted Podcast from Jupiter Broadcasting

Any issues on the community? Report it using the report flag.

Questions? DM the mods!

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

194

What is your machine naming scheme? (startrek.website)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

321 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The fifth time you get a ticket saying something like ‘Hedwig is down’

If only there was an excellent database to store where Hedwig.bthl4.sea.wa.goliath.corp was and maybe include an alias so you know it's NNTP5.goliath.corp also.

I shall invent one. It shall replicated and synchronize quickly. It shall interface and accept changes and share data. It will be simple to query so everyone can use it. I shall call it DNS . If people get snippy, I shall next invent an HS record.

Learn to use the tools, man. It'll help you adhere to a 40-year-old RFC on naming things.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yes, if you've built the network from scratch that works. Retrofitting it into an existing network however is a massive piece of work when you don't have that single source of truth to start with however. On networks I've built sensibly, I'll happily give people whatever CNAME they want to refer to their machine, but the machines actual name is descriptive, not the other way round.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I am 100% with you on this. At work the name should instantly tell me everything I need to know about the system at a glance.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Rfc1178 be damned.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I'll get right on rearchitecting the dns infrastructure of a large sprawling corporation, with mountains of technical debt from decades of acquisitions where they just mashed shit together. I'm sure that project will get approved.

Don't be condescending, man.