{"id":297,"date":"2004-08-30T17:15:26","date_gmt":"2004-08-30T17:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maydanoz.arved.priv.at\/blog\/?p=297"},"modified":"2004-08-30T17:15:26","modified_gmt":"2004-08-30T17:15:26","slug":"hostname","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/2004\/08\/30\/hostname\/","title":{"rendered":"hostname"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hendrik asked how i chose my hostnames<\/a>.
\nWhen I switched from NT (yes, huckfinn ran NT from January 1998 until ca. May 1999) to Linux, the beauty of hostnames was new to me, so I named it uninspired “lxserver”.
\nIIRC I switched to huckfinn, when i installed FreeBSD in 2001. Since I bought this machine at H & K<\/a>, it had an “H & K” sticker on it. The only name with H and K that was suggested on IRC was “Hackme”, which i didn’t like :-), so it became huckfinn. Two other machines are named after characters from Mark Twain books, the sucessor of huckfinn was named polly, because it was bought at PBB<\/a> and the alpha is named becky (because beta was already taken by the FreeBSD.org alpha cluster).
\nMy next computer, which will take over the services currently running on huckfinn (Mail + INN) so it’s name is already predefined as tomsawyer.
\nMy other machines’ names: When I bought my Athlon 1400 the first attribute i noticed was the waste heat, so i named it sauna.
\nThe Athlon64 machine needed a name with “hammer” and that reminded me of the 80s<\/strike> 90s popstar McHammer<\/strike> MC Hammer (“U can’t touch this”).
\nThe namesearching for my Laptop is already documented in this blog<\/a>.
\nMy NetBSD\/i386 box is called Olga, because when I bought it, I wanted to install OpenBSD, but because I am incompatible with the OpenBSD installer it is now running NetBSD \ud83d\ude42
\nMy sparc64 is named “fridge” because it looks like one<\/a>.
\nAnd finally my Epia System has a really uninspired name, “via”. I am still looking for better names, as i can change the name easily when I update it to FreeBSD 5.3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hendrik asked how i chose my hostnames. When I switched from NT (yes, huckfinn ran NT from January 1998 until ca. May 1999) to Linux, the beauty of hostnames was new to me, so I named it uninspired “lxserver”. IIRC I switched to huckfinn, when i installed FreeBSD in 2001. Since I bought this machine … Continue reading “hostname”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-networks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}