Contributed by mk/reverse on from the baptising dept.
Puffy | 10.7% (94 votes) | ||
Fugu | 4.6% (40 votes) | ||
Ponderosa | 1.8% (16 votes) | ||
Goldflipper | 0.3% (3 votes) | ||
Foo(bar) | 5.4% (47 votes) | ||
Too many boxes to give them proper names | 17.5% (154 votes) | ||
DNS sucks | 13.8% (121 votes) | ||
Other (comment) | 45.9% (403 votes) | ||
Total votes: 878
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By Simon (217.157.132.75) on
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By Lennart Fridén (194.174.65.18) on
I'm using a "computers that screws with humans or humanity in general" theme for all my computers and I'm running out of names...
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By Anonymous Coward (217.232.105.13) on
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By Ancalagon (81.226.253.250) on http://ancas.servebeer.com
By Anonymous Coward (130.161.3.219) on
Tweety
Hector
Granny
Elmer
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By Anonymous Coward (134.178.63.3) on
2) "lapisi"
By (66.92.34.80) on www.ebiinc.com
Every. Single. Server. Farm. winds up with names of various Gods. Who hasn't either had or run across a server named "Zeus" or "Odin"? (Which in about 25% of the cases invariably turn out to be piles of poo....)
Tweety, though... now that's got some style! -- Kevin
By Roy (24.34.19.74) on
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By PCronin (70.25.45.46) pcronin@bigfoot.com.spam.needs.to.die.com.net.org on http://pcronin.no-ip.info
the XP machine (for gaming only) is called defector (for obvious reasons), laptop is called lapdancer (sic) and i have two linux boxen (box and box2) that i'll be converting when i get another hard drive.
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By sickness (81.72.132.65) sickness@tiscali.it on http://www.sickness.it
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By PCronin (70.25.45.46) on
plus, that's a way to keep me from getting sued ;-)$
By Anonymous Coward (193.49.124.64) on
By Matt Van Mater (65.205.28.104) on
drizzt
bruenor
wulfgar
gromph
jarlaxle
pwent
regis (retired)
artemis (retired)
They're not all running openbsd all the time as I'm frequently messing around with them, breakfix, etc. The firewall and a few servers are always running obsd though.
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By Rubin Kincaid (24.68.220.55) on
By originaldwarf (213.156.52.96) on
bruenor (multi OSes Linux OBSD WIN2k)
flint (my brother win2k)
gimli (laptop linux/OBSD)
and my fake/home domain dwarflair.local
By almeida (192.160.62.60) on
By Dr Hell (80.58.9.107) on
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By Anonymous Coward (62.254.0.48) on
By Michael Knudsen (217.157.199.114) on
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By Peter Dembinski (217.96.175.71) pdemb@illx.org on http://illx.org/~pdemb/
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By Anonymous Coward (82.43.90.78) on
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By ViPER (62.192.125.102) viper@dmrt.net on http://www.dmrt.net
By clayton (213.60.35.222) on
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By Anonymous Coward (68.208.127.11) on
By mkb (195.209.229.227) on cvs.hnet.spb.ru
also my hostname list consists of such:
stargate
milky
razor
horizon
xantippe
rocket
skystar
gulliver (yeah, this one sucks, i know =)
demoniac (used for freebsd machines more frequently...)
taurus
...and more, i just don't remember them all, but i'm never
going to name a host as ``foo'', ``bar'', ``server1'' or
something... this ones suck.
ps. hello from russia. huh.
By Dave Steinberg (66.192.34.8) dave@redterror.net on http://www.geekisp.com/
wave, dune, sand, sanddollar, and starfish.
Someday if I ever put in an IDS or a bridging firewall, I'll probably call it "lifeguard" ... and eventually perhaps I'll get a "snackbar" or "boathouse". If I even need a VPN, I'll do "eastbathhouse" and "westbathhouse" ... for anyone who's ever been to Jone's Beach on Long Island. :)
By James (129.10.214.125) on
By Anonymous Coward (38.113.22.50) on
"camilla" for FTP
"boojum" for wireless gateway/router/firewall
By rmg (208.181.115.2) on
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By James (68.160.150.62) on
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By rmg (205.250.163.91) on
By Anonymous Coward (172.197.154.203) on
By demon (217.231.232.154) on
blue - due to blue lights on case
lila - because of buggy monitor which is purple until warm
yellow - the oldest one thus smoke-filled
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By oz (66.225.128.124) on
I spray bombed mine black to match the stereo
By Anonymous Coward (134.58.253.194) on
At the moment, phosporus is the last one, but there's plenty of names left :)
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By Zed (203.122.207.65) on
By SleighBoy (64.146.180.98) on http://www.code.cx/
OpenBSD box that has three network interfaces and is my firewall.
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By Luis Bruno (193.137.7.4) lbruno@republico.estv.ipv.pt.clothing. on
By Anonymous Coward (24.200.167.60) on
By Wijnand (217.170.33.176) on http://nedbsd.nl
akroma (workstation)
kamahl (workstation)
urza (nfs, nis )
phage (gateway, proxy)
By Carnelian (212.113.164.105) on
P133 -> nemo
P200 -> alface (lettuce)
Celeron 500 -> liceia (this is a village in Portugal)
Duron 800 -> lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
All running OpenBSD 3.6 :-)
And my eMac... well I named it emac! WoW!
By Peter Dembinski (217.96.175.71) pdemb@illx.org on http://illx.org/~pdemb/
By Terrell Prude', Jr. (151.188.247.80) on
One other similarity to Raistlin, the mage: thanks to the KDE, Firefox, and Thunderbird packages, OpenBSD, too, has a soft side that you can see and benefit from, if you pay attention enough to know how to draw it out and use it. The OpenBSD analog: read the man pages about installing packages.
By Michiel van Baak (80.126.97.99) michiel@vanbaak.info on
diablos => main workstation at home
shiva => my wife's workstation at home
bahamut => my laptop I carry from home to work and vice verca
As you can see I'm a Final Fantasy fan ;)
By lcde (141.106.202.124) on
By Anonymous Coward (24.51.61.11) on
By Anonymous Coward (70.19.129.149) on
the main file server was once an ultra sparc running solaris 9 and software raid5 on 5 4GB disks and named sparky. SCSI disks are $$$ so now it's a PC w/ 2 120GB IDE raid1. Anyways, I sometimes call it sparkplug too
By optix (81.240.128.88) optix@six5535.org on http://six5535.org
By David (82.53.150.101) caff@openbeer.it on http://www.openbeer.it/
cappuccino (firewall)
moka (workstation)
espresso (mail/www)
pocketcoffee (laptop)
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By CanukScribbler (209.167.125.82) DrDox@operamail.com on
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By Paladdin (80.58.46.107) on www.labelmap.com/cabezonwireless
By Benanov (12.153.50.35) on
Now she's born again as an OpenBSD box, backing up my compositions and personal files.
"Karen" (which also happens to be my gf's name; the box was named 3 years before I met her. This causes all sorts of confusion.)
By Donald (216.144.215.136) openbsd@donaldwilson.info on http://donaldwilson.info
Alice is the newest server (Apple 400MHz G4 tower,3.6, mail, dns, web, LDAP)
AliceII is my laptop (Apple 12inch Powerbook, Mac OS X)
Walrus (Sun Ultra 1 system) the server that Alice is replacing
Hatter (SparcStation5) is being replaced by Walrus (and is in a different location, and does backup functions for Walrus/Alice), and will become a spam filtering system
Oyster01, Oyster10, Oyster11 are also Spam filters (SpamAssassin Cluster, running NetBSD, and happen to be ancient Mac II's)
~Donald
By David Reuteler (167.234.12.79) on
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By isolde (62.116.13.41) on
By James Carter (66.218.244.40) blah@somenet.net on http://www.opentorrent.org
By ali (205.209.76.5) reg@taddia.com on
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chief - firewall/gw
stef - file server
tanya - laptop
aj - laptop
greg - workstation
sid - lab box
miranda - lab box
erwin - lab box
By wob (12.175.230.37) wob@bonch.org on
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By nuintari (24.210.222.145) on
delerium
neurosis
paranoia
scitzoid
euphoria
and
hadrian
nero
commodus
By Anonymous Coward (202.78.42.143) on
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By Heinz Holtschmit (201.129.107.121) heinz at bsdcoders.org on http://www.bsdcoders.org
moonshine (smb, nfs, cups)
infinitive (desktop)
minegra (laptop)
By dafros (212.87.3.11) admin@chem.uw.edu.pl on
By fscker (84.31.5.200) on
By Sven (80.126.65.121) debeuk@gmail.com on http://wiseblood.nl
By Anthony (199.67.140.20) on
By Anonymous Coward (67.165.214.212) on
bf15
noc2
bvbb
openradius
wing171
malibu
tron
ns1
ns2
blowfish
anshar
shadow
tobias
leafy
guestdhcp
ns3
carmel
grill
warthog
foghat
lava
pulp
ns4
benchmark
stealth
surya
kars
unixl2
mrdhcp
itrocks
bbq
vertis
lamp
and for a while a very old sparc named theo
By Chris Humphries (66.197.191.126) chris@unixfu.net on http://unixfu.net/
By Anonymous Coward (12.152.246.9) on
at home:
kerochan
sakura
farnsworth
bender
spoon
widget
interociter
at work:
darkstar
nessus
aurora
starfish
By knomevol (198.231.23.240) on
adler
agrippa
althusser
aquinas
arendt
aristotle
aurelius
avicenna
ayer
bacon
bateson
baudrillard
beauvoir
bentham
berkeley
berlin
bey
boethius
bourdieu
bradley
bruno
buber
burke
camus
carnap
chuang
cicero
cixous
confucius
crane
davidson
deman
debord
deleuze
dennett
derrida
descartes
dewey
dilthey
diogenes
duhem
durant
elahi
eliade
engels
epictetus
epicurus
erasmus
eriugena
esoteric
fanon
feuerbach
fichte
foucault
frege
fuller
gadamer
gellner
gracian
grosso
furdjieff
habermas
haraway
hegel
heidegger
hempel
herclitus
hobbes
hoffer
honderich
hume
husserl
hypatia
helois
illch
jameson
jaspers
kant
kierkegaard
kripke
krishnamurti
kuhn
lao
lefebvre
leibniz
levinas
locke
lonergan
lukacs
lyotard
machiavelli
marcus
marcuse
marx
merleauponty
mill
montaigne
moore
more
nelson
nietzche
nock
nozick
palmer
pascal
peirce
piper
plato
plotinus
popper
porphyry
poster
proclus
pythagoras
quine
rajchandra
rand
rawls
By Renzo Fabriek (62.221.200.26) mailing@fiberworld.nl on
I just took the easy way out. My initials "RF" with the type off machine followed by a number.
rfserver#
rfwerkpc#
rfnotebook#
rfproxyfw
By Deniss B (81.198.158.42) on
Tesla (firewall)
By Anonymous Coward (204.108.8.5) on
gorilla
chimp
By Anonymous Coward (24.84.65.43) on
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By chort (69.17.34.75) on http://www.smtps.net/email-sec/
aten
abydos
giza
horus
osiris
ptah
pyramid (not terribly original, I admit)
saqqara
sekhmet
seth
By Free Bird (217.149.210.16) on
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By Anthony (68.145.111.152) on
By brain_Fear (220.240.70.35) http://dystopias.ath.cx on
By Chris (212.19.85.137) on
By Kevin MacPherson (209.87.242.247) kevinm@kamac.ca on
Prometheus - Desktop, Also brother to Atlas and Epimetheus
Epimetheus - Desktop, Also brother to Atlas and Prometheus
Gateway - Unimaginative.
By Toxa (62.89.204.62) on
By Toxa (62.89.204.62) on
freddie
brian
roger
john
due to the famous rock band members. The firth, sixth, etc... machines has names
mercury
may
deacon
taylor
which are last names of those four guys.
At home, everything is built around ny nickname, Toxa (short form of name Anthon), so in my toxalan you can find
laptoxa (laptop)
pocketoxa (PDA)
toxahost (server)
By Juan Ramon Venegas Moreno (200.67.73.177) on
By Bob (24.0.83.94) on
By D. Quayle (38.117.186.222) on
By marcos (168.226.100.213) marcos@ghostofcapehorn.com.ar on
By Nathan Houghton (69.69.21.190) nateSPAM@SUXORESocalafl.net on http://www.brainwerk.org
Desktop - carbon
Laptop - lithium
Using element names is great..
Hopefully I don't ever have more than 118 boxes ;>
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By Anonymous Coward (69.224.22.222) on
By Collin (68.6.95.170) collin-undeadly@betaversion.net on
cerberos - firewall/access-router guarding a student network
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By Anonymous Coward (203.45.41.88) on
By William Wong (203.168.166.80) on
By Anonymous Coward (212.211.200.144) on
By Matthias Kilian (80.134.224.103) on
petunia (i386)
cuddles (i386)
giggles (macppc)
By Krunch (80.200.226.234) on http://krunch.servebeer.com/~krunch/
I'm going to name my new Soekris "phatbox".
I have some friends who named their computers after beers name. I heard there is a French univeristy (Lille) where they did that too.
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By Michael Knudsen (217.157.199.114) on
> I have some friends who named their computers after beers name. I heard > there is a French univeristy (Lille) where they did that too.
A library department at my university has named their computers after Soviet Union leaders (Stalin, Brezhnev, Khrustsjov etc.), which is a rather good scheme since there are lots and lots to choose from. Another department names their machines after different types of rock (dolomit, granite etc.). A third department has named their machines after automobile brands (Lada, Skoda, Wartburg etc.).
By twisla (217.136.68.237) on http://twisla.com
chimay -> soekris fw/ap/routeur
kwak -> p2 233 laptop printserver
satan -> amd64 workstation
nocturum (as in delirium nocturum, used to have a delirium before) -> P4e desktop
kasteel -> P4a testbox
brigand -> little ultra1 to mess with a sparc64
chouffe -> dual p3 mail/webserver
jupiler -> amd athlonxp fileserver
duvel -> p3m laptop
By Idle American (12.33.194.125) on
just my 2cents worth.
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By Idle American (12.33.194.125) on
By Krunch (80.200.148.99) on http://krunch.servebeer.com/~krunch/
By Nathan Houghton (69.69.21.190) nateSPAM@SUXORESocalafl.net on http://www.brainwerk.org
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By Idle American (12.33.194.156) on
By Anonymous Coward (67.121.51.10) on
By Noryungi (82.123.62.158) on
Sushi
Maki
Sashimi
Lamen
Gyoza
Temaki
Shiumai
Kimchi
The last one is interesting, since it is more a Korean dish than a Japanese one. Kimchi is thinly sliced cabbage, piled up, with tons of chili sauce between each cabbage slice. Very, very, very hot dish. The machine named Kimchi is my firewall... ;-)
By Simmoril (68.100.167.60) simmoril@simmoril.com on http://www.simmoril.com/blog
Main boxes - Goliath, Lexington, Demona
Gateways/Routers - phoenixgate, eyeofodin
You get the idea ;-)
By Anonymous Coward (211.130.6.28) on
http://www.geocities.jp/s_h_o_chan/3d_kobeya/nurikabe.jpg
By Anonymous Coward (213.118.102.119) on
By ExY (195.175.37.10) on
By Jerky (204.94.148.44) on
By Sascha hanse (61.19.243.11) on http://www.ydalir.de
By abulyomon (213.186.190.70) on
By thomas dettbarn (153.96.214.118) on dettus.net
my desktop is "kuehlschrank", (freezer), then there is "mixxer", "kaesereibe" (cheese crater), "schuhkarton" (shoebox), "tuerstopper" (doorstop), "backofen" (oven) and "giesskanne" (watering can)
nice namespace, eh?! ;-)
By Seneca (217.31.188.216) mats.lundqvist@mbox.bitnet.net on
Charybdis (testbox now)
Scylla (soekris 4801, OpenBSOD 3.6 )
By infrasparc (68.104.14.15) on
edmund
potato
turnip
decker
batty
zhora
pris
weebl
bob
donkey
monkey
hairylee
ninjapirate
guernica
picasso
iberia
durutti
By Erik M (66.222.35.68) on
By Esben Collstrup (193.162.192.11) ecoll_web (a) hotmail (dot) com on
Blackjack is a wellknown condom name in my part of the world, and since my OBSD box is a black Mini-ITX box and it's primary function is to protect me from the nasty parts of the internet the name was fairly obvious.
By Anonymous Coward (203.10.110.133) on
server
Thunderbird (My old desktop)
iBook
Sun
After looking at some of the names here, I really should take a bit more time to think about my machines names at install time. I mean I am usually more creative in life!
The latest machine I installed I just called "unix"!
You guys have left me to shame!!
By bplipschitz (209.145.162.138) on
By Anonymous Coward (193.108.177.77) on
azazel
belial
morbid
By Anonymous Coward (157.181.160.66) on
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By Wu (80.28.27.243) wu@e-shell.org on http://www.e-shell.org
By ssc (217.232.16.4) ssc@h07.org on http://unix-geek.info
there are about 30.600 major dead songs,
so I shouldn't run out of names anytime soon :)
By Russian power! :) (158.38.69.64) on
Helga
Nikita
Borris
Jeltsin
Gorbatjov
Stalin
Lenin
By Anonymous Coward (149.132.5.39) on
By worzeel (202.150.96.138) on
anacar
By Anonymous Coward (213.171.248.82) on
Not that it has any special meaning other than I admire both the man and OpenBSD.
Other names I'm fond of: nostromo, hal, neumann, helicon, ithaqua, grunwalski... oh, and kenny for the honeypot.
By raf (81.185.34.234) on http://ztrip.ath.cx
-> lateralus (fw)
-> parabol (dmz acting as mail,web,ssh server)
-> parabola (file server nfs,smb)
-> undertown (sun ultra1 test server)
-> aenima (my main workstation)
My domain is ... .tool (surprise ?).
raf
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By raf (81.185.34.234) on http://ztrip.ath.cx
=> opiate (old macintosh who do nothing)
raf
By Anonymous Coward (68.55.154.105) on
omega
rosie
ishmael
craig
fish
By Justin (24.143.150.108) on
By sbr (66.11.172.61) sbr@gnook.org on http://gnook.org/~sbr/
main server - jiyu
extra box - kamakura
firewall - kanmon
oldbeast - hal6500
oldfirewall - datatrain
oldserver - kyoto
By Jim Savage (199.46.199.231) cimsolve@comcast.net on
By ardwork (84.63.11.51) on
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porta_Nigra