Martin F. Krafft: Host naming theme
Init Seven, my favourite Swiss
ISP, has offered to collocate one of my machines in their racks
with native IPv6-connectivity. I am now searching for a name for
this new host.
A recent discussion has made me curious about how many people
can deduce my host naming theme from the set of names of currently
operational machines under the
madduck.net
domain:
If you know what ties this list together, please help me christen the new machine! Update: the responses have been overwhelming, 183 people have written in so far, and 149 of them knew what s going on (though some admitted to cheating with a search engine). Thanks to everyone! In addition to the common theme, which most guessed correctly, I have a few other restrictions, mainly that the words have to be singular names or nouns, and that they have to feel right . Here are the suggestions I ve received which passed my filters, in decreasing order of frequency:albatross
,bell
,brick
,cigar
,cirrus
,clegg
,diamond
,echo
,embryo
,eugene
,fishbowl
,gerald
,gnome
,lapse
,lust
,mother
,pict
,pig
,piper
,pulse
,seamus
,sheep
,time
,vera
,wall
.
emily, lucifer, fletcher, lunatic, arnold, flesh, gig, bike, moon, brain, hand, balloon, hope, alan, marmelade, wing, heart, summer, thunder, sam, tropez, sky, stethoscope, khyber, lotus, jugband, cymbaline, remergence, dawn, hell, desert, worm, eclipse, dog, sysyphus, julia, scarecrow, sun, overdrive, vizier, matilda, eiderdown, babe, pillow, funkydung, atom, fore, shout, breast, domine, swan, charade, grantchester, money.Curiously, I forgot about
worm
and
wing
, which are in use, so those are out.
Some of them are not candidates because I d mistype them all the
time ( stethoscope , cymbaline , sysyphus , remergence ,
scarecrow , eiderdown , marmelade , grantchester ).
Some just don t seem right ( tropez , shout , overdrive ,
flesh , breast , sky , jugband , eclipse , lucifer ,
money )
Some are not appropriate as hostname for computers ( brain ,
heart , damage , hell , lunatic , babe ). Those who suggested
machine were referred to my SMTP servers greeting banner.
I have to scratch fletcher and desert because of their
source. I have to do the same to thunder , unfortunately. And I
ought to retire pulse , although not really.
Noone suggested grimble and crumble .
As there are so many, and so
many more, I am changing my rule to significant, enigmatic,
and memorable singular nouns and names , which brings us down
to:
arnold, gig, bike, moon, alan, khyber, lotus, julia, sun, vizier, matilda, atom, domine, swan, charade, grimble, crumble.Given that list, I think I will be launching
gig
,
khyber
, lotus
, charade
,
vizier
, domine
, and/or swan
in the near future. Or if it s a pair, it ll be
grimble
and crumble
.
Thanks all, this was fun.
PS: you may use the same naming scheme for your hosts, but you
take full responsibility in case you and I ever have to fuse
networks in any way.
NP:
Riverside: Out of Myself