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OK, I suppose a list of common, easy-to-pronounce words is ok...

I use Pokemon. What do you use?

To this day, my favorite naming scheme I ever encountered was names of elements, everything CNAMEd to the elemental abbreviation, with the last octet of the IP address as the atomic number. It was for a geophysics group, which probably made it a little more discoverable/easily spellable.

That might work for a private network, but what if you have a /24 and need to use the entire range?

Maybe find molecules with the corresponding molar mass, e.g. glucose = C6H12O6 = 180?

I had that idea ages ago and I'm glad someone actually used it.

I used to run a dual stack app, windows was Roman mythology, linux was Greek, that allowed us to keep roles straight across environments - apollo/hermes, athena/minerva, etc.

You...do know that Apollo and Hermes are two entirely different entities, right? Hermes is the counterpart of the Roman Mercury. Apollo has the same names in both pantheons.

Yeah, I remembered that wasn't the right pairing after I wrote that (and thankfully ours weren't paired like that, we had the right names); but that also goes to show you the downside of that particular naming scheme - it requires additional knowledge in a specific domain.

Relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Jx8Eay5fWQ

I tend to use names from different mythologies, so I usually end up with names like "osiris," "lorien," "cernunnos," etc. Makes for easy to remember names, and I never expect to run out of them.

At 280 North we used exit names along 280... woodside.280n.com, pagemill.280n.com, sandhill.280n.com, etc

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_280_(California)#Ex...

I use a bunch of anime characters when naming the machines. Source of my inspiration is: http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1467

Excellent. Somehow I've managed to call a side project server here "Toothless".

I once used Cthulhu mythos monsters. It turned out to be a bad idea: those things are horribly hard to spell.

I'd be afraid to wake them from hibernation.

They are all named for the mountains of New York State in decreasing height order.

Nearby restaurants. Admittedly a shorter list than Pokemon :)

I use famous computer scientists. My Macbook is named Woz, and I also have Kernighan, Ritchie, Torvalds, etc.

Now all I have to do is become a famous computer scientist and accuse you of stealing my hardware!

Do you also match the names with the technologies they're related with? It would be awkward to call a Windows server "Torvalds".

Yeah, I try to. For instance, my Magic Mouse is called Doug, after Doug Engelbart, the inventor of the computer mouse.

Star Trek: TNG characters. Excluding Data to avoid confusion, of course.

My fairly modest home network uses characters from Madoka Magica.

We use the names of Final Fantasy characters.

Bananaman characters here. In hindsight, they're nice and clear and short, and as a bonus, I get to refer to our staging servers as 'blight' (after General Blight)...

I second that one :)

During my final internship, the sysadmins gave every intern a Dell named after defunct air carriers. (Mine was PANAM.)

Characters/references from Arrested Development: Gob, Buster, StairCar…

Porn star names will usually do the "trick".

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