OpenBSD Journal

What did you name your OpenBSD box?

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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Comments
  1. By Simon (217.157.132.75) on

    Called mine Bitch, mustly because my hardware was crap when I did the last install.

    Comments
    1. By Anonymous Coward (67.70.74.251) on

      Called mine slacker, for the same reasons... ;-)

      Comments
      1. By ihsan (192.18.240.12) ihsan@dogan.ch on

        Called my firewall/router pagh (Klingon starship).

    2. By Anonymous Coward (212.249.41.203) on

      Athena

    3. By SH (82.182.103.172) on

      At work I tried to name our repository server as "blackhole", but as a compromise we named it "well" :/)

  2. By Anthony (68.145.111.152) on

    "homestar"

  3. By Anonymous Coward (212.113.164.97) on

    "samurai"

    Comments
    1. By malfunction54 (67.80.172.186) on

      haha!, named mine "yojimbo"

  4. By Anonymous Coward (217.232.83.50) on

    skynet

    Comments
    1. By Lennart Fridén (194.174.65.18) on

      Hey, that's the name of my workstation (in various incarnations)! :-)

      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...

      Comments
      1. By Anonymous Coward (217.232.105.13) on

        wanna tell me the others?

        Comments
        1. By Anonymous Coward (209.142.209.161) on

          Colossus/Guardian, HAL, MCP, WOPR, and Mother come to mind. Newer films have more examples, but do you draw a line between AI/computer and AI/android?

  5. By Ancalagon (81.226.253.250) on http://ancas.servebeer.com

    * ancas(.servebeer.com) (and yes, the website is just a joke .. ) // firewall / webserver :D * TBP // WS .. * pleks89 // a little joke with one of my friends ..

  6. By Anonymous Coward (130.161.3.219) on

    In chronological order:
    Tweety
    Hector
    Granny
    Elmer

    Comments
    1. By Anonymous Coward (134.178.63.3) on

      1) "nomukeiki"
      2) "lapisi"

    2. By (66.92.34.80) on www.ebiinc.com

      This is one of the most original naming conventions I think I've ever heard. (No, really.)

      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

  7. By Roy (24.34.19.74) on

    venus

  8. By Anonymous Coward (24.59.156.225) on

    named mine wallstreet, since i name all my boxes after places i've been, and since its my firewall, it made sense.

  9. By Veit Waltemath (213.240.180.129) veitw@portshq.de on

    I called my Router/Firewall "gator", my multi macppc server "muffin" and my amd64 experimental box works like a "blitz".

  10. By Zordon (62.175.43.17) on

    I called mine OpenBSDSux.

    Comments
    1. By Anonymous Coward (198.53.249.58) on

      I called mine "grow up". Maybe you'll be more mature once puberty hits.

    2. By Joel (81.172.173.104) on

      That was really funny :) This whole thread is just so ubergeek.

  11. By PCronin (70.25.45.46) pcronin@bigfoot.com.spam.needs.to.die.com.net.org on http://pcronin.no-ip.info

    main router is called garabaldi, and my carp setup test boxes are babylon2 and babylon3. i know.. they're doomed untill i add at least 2 more nodes ;-)$

    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.

    Comments
    1. By sickness (81.72.132.65) sickness@tiscali.it on http://www.sickness.it

      garabaldi? wasn't it "garibaldi"? :P

      Comments
      1. By PCronin (70.25.45.46) on

        heh.. never have been much on spelling anything more than commands. ;-)$

        plus, that's a way to keep me from getting sued ;-)$

  12. By Anonymous Coward (193.49.124.64) on

    lilas (cause my Sun gets the same violet color as this flower)

  13. By Matt Van Mater (65.205.28.104) on

    zaknafein
    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.

    Comments
    1. By Rubin Kincaid (24.68.220.55) on

      malice
      strife
      grouch 
      castro 
      crusty 
      

    2. By originaldwarf (213.156.52.96) on

      moria (firewall)
      bruenor (multi OSes Linux OBSD WIN2k)
      flint (my brother win2k)
      gimli (laptop linux/OBSD)
      and my fake/home domain dwarflair.local

  14. By almeida (192.160.62.60) on

    headless

  15. By Dr Hell (80.58.9.107) on

    Perseo and Andromeda

  16. By sean (139.142.208.98) on

    Greek letters.

  17. By Anonymous Coward (62.254.0.48) on

    paladin (as in guardian) runs pf, apache, serves ftp

  18. By Michael Knudsen (217.157.199.114) on

    My laptop is called `luggage' (from Discworld), and my firewall/home server is called `kosmos'; both run OpenBSD. I've also got a machine running Windows; it's called `playstation'.

    Comments
    1. By Peter Dembinski (217.96.175.71) pdemb@illx.org on http://illx.org/~pdemb/

      heh, 'luggage' is good, esp. for laptops, though they don't walk :>

      Comments
      1. By Anonymous Coward (82.43.90.78) on

        Or do your laundry and eat muggers.... :D

  19. By Anonymous Coward (128.172.160.45) on

    PUFFdaddy.

  20. By ViPER (62.192.125.102) viper@dmrt.net on http://www.dmrt.net

    allevil (web server) dbase (database server) sunny (sparcstation 5) cyanide (my homebox)

  21. By clayton (213.60.35.222) on

    gatekeeper

    Comments
    1. By Anonymous Coward (68.208.127.11) on

      And your work computer is the 'keymaster' right?

  22. By mkb (195.209.229.227) on cvs.hnet.spb.ru

    hey, is ``fugu'' so popular??? ;-)

    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.

  23. By Dave Steinberg (66.192.34.8) dave@redterror.net on http://www.geekisp.com/

    I've got this little beach theme going on, so my machines are:

    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. :)

  24. By James (129.10.214.125) on

    I used to name things with the word ball, but have recently switched to the name of whatever author I am reading when I get the machine. fireball, portaball, bigball. now they're: huxley, donleavy, salinger, and a recently added bear.

  25. By Anonymous Coward (38.113.22.50) on

    "bunsen" for postfix
    "camilla" for FTP
    "boojum" for wireless gateway/router/firewall

  26. By rmg (208.181.115.2) on

    salamander

    Comments
    1. By James (68.160.150.62) on

      whoa. good name. fahrenheit 451 influenced?

      Comments
      1. By rmg (205.250.163.91) on

        no, D&D/fantasy

  27. By Anonymous Coward (172.197.154.203) on

    cerberus for firewall

  28. By demon (217.231.232.154) on

    green - due to green case application
    blue - due to blue lights on case
    lila - because of buggy monitor which is purple until warm
    yellow - the oldest one thus smoke-filled

    Comments
    1. By oz (66.225.128.124) on

      blackbox

      I spray bombed mine black to match the stereo

  29. By Anonymous Coward (134.58.253.194) on

    I decided to set up an internal DNS server right after a hard chemistry exam, so I called them 'hydrogen', 'helium', 'lithium', 'beryllium', 'boron', 'carbon', ... (and yes, their IP addresses are related to the atom number... ;-) )

    At the moment, phosporus is the last one, but there's plenty of names left :)

    Comments
    1. By Zed (203.122.207.65) on

      now that is a cool idea

  30. By SleighBoy (64.146.180.98) on http://www.code.cx/

    Cerberus

    OpenBSD box that has three network interfaces and is my firewall.

    Comments
    1. By Luis Bruno (193.137.7.4) lbruno@republico.estv.ipv.pt.clothing. on

      +1 funny :-)

    2. By Anonymous Coward (24.200.167.60) on

      Hey, so did I (at my previous job)!

  31. By Wijnand (217.170.33.176) on http://nedbsd.nl

    For players of the Magic the Gathering game:
    akroma (workstation)
    kamahl (workstation)
    urza (nfs, nis )
    phage (gateway, proxy)

  32. By Carnelian (212.113.164.105) on

    Soekris -> tangerina (mandrin)
    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!

  33. By Peter Dembinski (217.96.175.71) pdemb@illx.org on http://illx.org/~pdemb/

    Just like in airplanes :)

  34. By Terrell Prude', Jr. (151.188.247.80) on

    raistlin, because the Dragonlance mage by that name is the most powerful mage ever to exist in that world. Similarly, OpenBSD is the most powerfully secure OS--available to us mere mortals outside of a confined lab--ever to exist in this world. In other words, both are total bad-asses. :-)

    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.

  35. By Michiel van Baak (80.126.97.99) michiel@vanbaak.info on

    griever => Firewall/storage server at home
    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 ;)

  36. By lcde (141.106.202.124) on

    tweedledee.mediabox tweedledum.portable

  37. By Anonymous Coward (24.51.61.11) on

    I have a 'Tick' theme going on. Tick - Large blue firewall protecing all the other boxen Arthur - Kinda pudgy laptop. DieFledermaus - The machine I work on the most so it hardly ever works.

  38. By Anonymous Coward (70.19.129.149) on

    fireplug, a lowly sun sparc LX as my firewall.

    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

  39. By optix (81.240.128.88) optix@six5535.org on http://six5535.org

    "melissa"

  40. By David (82.53.150.101) caff@openbeer.it on http://www.openbeer.it/

    cappuccino (firewall)
    moka (workstation)
    espresso (mail/www)
    pocketcoffee (laptop)

  41. By Loop (203.194.29.45) on

    doorbitch - for obvious reasons :)

  42. By giezet (217.95.180.126) on

    demon & hades say hello :)

  43. By Anonymous Coward (207.58.193.61) on

    nexus - gateway/firewall malaki - file server

  44. By CanukScribbler (209.167.125.82) DrDox@operamail.com on

    dragon

  45. By acidos (128.183.167.178) acidos@bandwidth-junkies.net on

    Malibu and Scoresby

  46. By Anonymous Coward (216.62.151.90) on

    Norbert, of course. What else am I going to name a firewall?

  47. By Paladdin (80.58.46.107) on www.labelmap.com/cabezonwireless

    pokemon!!! My nephew and niece love it :D

  48. By Benanov (12.153.50.35) on

    Since most of my hardware gets names when it finds a use...well, this box used to be my primary computer. A blazing fast P2-350 running Windows.

    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.)

  49. By Donald (216.144.215.136) openbsd@donaldwilson.info on http://donaldwilson.info

    All the systems on my network share a theme in the naming. (except for my girlfriends laptop... I'm not allowed to name that one apparantly)

    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

  50. By David Reuteler (167.234.12.79) on

    panic

  51. By Anonymous Coward (212.113.164.105) on

    pr0n

  52. By isolde (62.116.13.41) on

    barbarian

  53. By ali (205.209.76.5) reg@taddia.com on

    "nestor"

  54. By Anonymous Coward (65.184.36.236) on

    citadel

  55. By Jeff Flowers (24.129.81.75) on

    GOO

  56. By Olli (84.128.98.146) on

    spiderweb and shield

  57. By Anonymous Coward (217.208.176.221) on

    I use a UserFriendly (http://www.userfirendly.org) theme:

    chief - firewall/gw
    stef - file server
    tanya - laptop
    aj - laptop
    greg - workstation
    sid - lab box
    miranda - lab box
    erwin - lab box

  58. By wob (12.175.230.37) wob@bonch.org on

    my firewall is named 'bitchslap' (bitchslap those whore packets away!) and my file server is named 'grundo', the area between your wee-nutsaq and your anooz!

  59. By Anonymous Coward (80.58.3.107) on

    GATO ("cat" in english, to my laptop), and FISH to my workstation

  60. By Dave (154.5.73.205) on

    Lintilla (Hitchiker's Guide)

  61. By Anonymous Coward (192.43.227.18) on

    Shenthet. An obscure egyptian god. Good name for a packet filter.

  62. By nuintari (24.210.222.145) on

    two networks:
    delerium
    neurosis
    paranoia
    scitzoid
    euphoria

    and

    hadrian
    nero
    commodus

  63. By Anonymous Coward (202.78.42.143) on

    teebor (Simpsons)

  64. By Sean Brown (68.147.170.205) on

    I name my systems after ancient cities, OpenBSD got Sparta, the firewall, and Messenia which is a build environment, mainly for building releases and patches for Sparta.

  65. By Heinz Holtschmit (201.129.107.121) heinz at bsdcoders.org on http://www.bsdcoders.org

    essential (gw,squid, httpd)
    moonshine (smb, nfs, cups)
    infinitive (desktop)
    minegra (laptop)

  66. By dafros (212.87.3.11) admin@chem.uw.edu.pl on

    ferrari carrera predict ...

  67. By fscker (84.31.5.200) on

    mnemonic

  68. By Sven (80.126.65.121) debeuk@gmail.com on http://wiseblood.nl

    My workstation is called ummon (an AI from Dan Simmons' Hyperion). The rest are named after songs/albums by Foetus (most of them are two syllable words). So far I have stumbo (webserver), bedrock (firewall) and gonzola (used for building releases).

  69. By Anthony (199.67.140.20) on

    seagrams

  70. By Anonymous Coward (67.165.214.212) on

    bf13
    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

  71. By Chris Humphries (66.197.191.126) chris@unixfu.net on http://unixfu.net/

    i have one up named drunkenmonkey.unixfu.net

  72. By Anonymous Coward (12.152.246.9) on

    openbsd hosts...

    at home:
    kerochan
    sakura
    farnsworth
    bender
    spoon
    widget
    interociter

    at work:
    darkstar
    nessus
    aurora
    starfish

  73. By knomevol (198.231.23.240) on

    abelard
    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

  74. By Renzo Fabriek (62.221.200.26) mailing@fiberworld.nl on

    DAMM, i am so dull when i read all those names.

    I just took the easy way out. My initials "RF" with the type off machine followed by a number.

    rfserver#
    rfwerkpc#
    rfnotebook#
    rfproxyfw

  75. By Deniss B (81.198.158.42) on

    Polychrome (desktop)
    Tesla (firewall)

  76. By Anonymous Coward (204.108.8.5) on

    seamonkey
    gorilla
    chimp

  77. By Anonymous Coward (24.84.65.43) on

    generic - case badge on workstation robotnik - case badge on server p2 - firewall, Pentium II

    Comments
    1. By yet another ac (210.215.3.6) on

      Well, for our latest generation of boxes we went for X-men names... Gambit, Beast, Wolverine, Sabretooth, Storm, Rogue, Xavier etc etc

  78. By chort (69.17.34.75) on http://www.smtps.net/email-sec/

    amun
    aten
    abydos
    giza
    horus
    osiris
    ptah
    pyramid (not terribly original, I admit)
    saqqara
    sekhmet
    seth

  79. By Free Bird (217.149.210.16) on

    I named mine Anubis... :)

    Comments
    1. By Anthony (68.145.111.152) on

      The Ancient Egyptians knew how to come up with good names. :)

  80. By brain_Fear (220.240.70.35) http://dystopias.ath.cx on

    europa

  81. By Chris (212.19.85.137) on

    shitbags - it keeps falling over (shun the pc chips motherboard!!!).

  82. By Kevin MacPherson (209.87.242.247) kevinm@kamac.ca on

    Atlas - Laptop (Cause it holds up my world)
    Prometheus - Desktop, Also brother to Atlas and Epimetheus
    Epimetheus - Desktop, Also brother to Atlas and Prometheus
    Gateway - Unimaginative.

  83. By Toxa (62.89.204.62) on

    At work, my production servers has names 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)

  84. By Toxa (62.89.204.62) on

    At work, my production servers has names

    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)

  85. By Juan Ramon Venegas Moreno (200.67.73.177) on

    cerbero -> Firewall hermes -> eMail iblowfish -> laptop

  86. By Bob (24.0.83.94) on

    I name most machines after Piper Aircraft, since I own one. Archer - Laptop Warrior - Desktop Dakota - Web/Mail/File Server Navajo - Dual Proc Test Bed Pacer - Sparc Arrow - UltraSPARC Commanche - Test Bed Cruiser - Firewall Piper named the aircraft after Native Americans.

  87. By D. Quayle (38.117.186.222) on

    sirion, gelion, narog, and baranduin are the OpenBSD boxes. All routing boxes are named after rivers.

  88. By marcos (168.226.100.213) marcos@ghostofcapehorn.com.ar on

    merlin, excalibur

  89. By Nathan Houghton (69.69.21.190) nateSPAM@SUXORESocalafl.net on http://www.brainwerk.org

    Firewall - titanium
    Desktop - carbon
    Laptop - lithium


    Using element names is great..

    Hopefully I don't ever have more than 118 boxes ;>

    Comments
    1. By Anonymous Coward (69.224.22.222) on

      rollins (firewall), slint, beulah, black

  90. By Collin (68.6.95.170) collin-undeadly@betaversion.net on

    tpol (T'Pol) - home network
    cerberos - firewall/access-router guarding a student network

    Comments
    1. By Anonymous Coward (203.45.41.88) on

      ha ha! sounds scary! at least spell it right! is it genetically incorrect, does it have a missing irq?

  91. By William Wong (203.168.166.80) on

    simply openbsd as it is one of the many other vmware installations. the others are freebsd, dragonfly, slackware and debian.

  92. By Anonymous Coward (212.211.200.144) on

    I name my computers after solar planets and their moons. My current OpenBSD box is named charon as the moon of pluto.

  93. By Matthias Kilian (80.134.224.103) on

    My boxes at home:

    petunia (i386)
    cuddles (i386)
    giggles (macppc)

  94. By Krunch (80.200.226.234) on http://krunch.servebeer.com/~krunch/

    insomniac (it never sleeps)
    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.

    Comments
    1. 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.).

    2. By twisla (217.136.68.237) on http://twisla.com

      I named my home/work boxes after Belgian beers:

      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

  95. By Idle American (12.33.194.125) on

    in the workplace, naming your box after a greek god, or import beer or russian leader might seem cool at the time, but good luck trying to explain to a new employee (someone who wasn't there when these boxes were named) how to remember which box does what. as lame as something like 'www01' and 'www02' or 'smtp01' and 'smtp02' might be, it's pretty straight forward what they do and easy to remember.
    just my 2cents worth.

    Comments
    1. By Idle American (12.33.194.125) on

      oh yeah, at home my openbsd box is named 'pf' (str8 and 2 the pnt). at work i have one called 'netmon' (take a guess what it does).

    2. By Krunch (80.200.148.99) on http://krunch.servebeer.com/~krunch/

      Isn't that what CNAME are for ? Just give your boxes whatever name you want and choose meaningful CNAMEs. That way you can also change what box do what without changing its real name.

    3. By Nathan Houghton (69.69.21.190) nateSPAM@SUXORESocalafl.net on http://www.brainwerk.org

      oh come on.. didn't you read the question? it says what did you name _your_ openbsd box... your bosses machine doesnt count :>

      Comments
      1. By Idle American (12.33.194.156) on

        and you didn't read my response, it opens with "in the workplace"...a comment directed at those who already replied on here with hostnames they used at work, on their boss's box.

  96. By Anonymous Coward (67.121.51.10) on

    chelan, after the lake my gf loves

  97. By Noryungi (82.123.62.158) on

    Japanese food!

    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... ;-)

  98. By Simmoril (68.100.167.60) simmoril@simmoril.com on http://www.simmoril.com/blog

    Got a whole Gargoyles thing going on:

    Main boxes - Goliath, Lexington, Demona

    Gateways/Routers - phoenixgate, eyeofodin

    You get the idea ;-)

  99. By Anonymous Coward (211.130.6.28) on

    Called mine Nurikabe, after the Japanese monster made out of grout and shaped like a wall. Kinda fits a firewall you know, a monster wall that doesn't let any enemy by him ;)

    http://www.geocities.jp/s_h_o_chan/3d_kobeya/nurikabe.jpg

  100. By Anonymous Coward (213.118.102.119) on

    Let's see .. There's Arien, Gothmog, Ilmare, Olorin, and so on and so forth. The common link is that they're all Maiar, according to JRR Tolkien anyway ;).

  101. By ExY (195.175.37.10) on

    "puffix"

  102. By Jerky (204.94.148.44) on

    bloat - after the puffer fish in Pixar's Finding Nemo.

  103. By Sascha hanse (61.19.243.11) on http://www.ydalir.de

    The first is called walhall, the others are named thor, odin, etc.

  104. By abulyomon (213.186.190.70) on

    "dogma"

  105. By thomas dettbarn (153.96.214.118) on dettus.net

    my notebook, the openbsdbox is called "pfeffermuehle" (peppermill)
    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?! ;-)

  106. By Seneca (217.31.188.216) mats.lundqvist@mbox.bitnet.net on

    In chronological order:
    Charybdis (testbox now)
    Scylla (soekris 4801, OpenBSOD 3.6 )

  107. By infrasparc (68.104.14.15) on

    baldrick
    edmund
    potato
    turnip

    decker
    batty
    zhora
    pris

    weebl
    bob
    donkey
    monkey
    hairylee
    ninjapirate

    guernica
    picasso
    iberia
    durutti

  108. By Erik M (66.222.35.68) on

    "wall"

  109. By Esben Collstrup (193.162.192.11) ecoll_web (a) hotmail (dot) com on

    "blackjack"

    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.

  110. By Anonymous Coward (203.10.110.133) on

    firewall
    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!!

  111. By bplipschitz (209.145.162.138) on

    Ultra2, uh, because it runs on an Ultra2. . .

  112. By Anonymous Coward (193.108.177.77) on

    arachnotron
    azazel
    belial
    morbid

  113. By Anonymous Coward (157.181.160.66) on

    bsd.inf.elte.hu

  114. By Anonymous Coward (157.182.186.162) on

    suzaku for the DB box, thefrenchman for the firewall, and shiva for the desktop box.

  115. By Wu (80.28.27.243) wu@e-shell.org on http://www.e-shell.org

    One is tyr, like the old god of war from the vikings, another is garlic, you know, it sounds vampiric.. Another one is snarl, like an autobot of the transformers series who appears as a brave warrior (this last one is a firewall on a transport company, apropiated, isn't it?

  116. By ssc (217.232.16.4) ssc@h07.org on http://unix-geek.info

    my boxes are named after grateful dead songs

    there are about 30.600 major dead songs,
    so I shouldn't run out of names anytime soon :)

  117. By Russian power! :) (158.38.69.64) on

    mine is:
    Helga
    Nikita
    Borris
    Jeltsin
    Gorbatjov
    Stalin
    Lenin

  118. By Anonymous Coward (149.132.5.39) on

    Barrakuda, it's my little soekris firewall =)

  119. By worzeel (202.150.96.138) on

    tunguska
    anacar

  120. By Anonymous Coward (213.171.248.82) on

    ramanujan

    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.

  121. By raf (81.185.34.234) on http://ztrip.ath.cx

    For tool fan :

    -> 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

    Comments
    1. By raf (81.185.34.234) on http://ztrip.ath.cx

      Oh I forgot one :

      => opiate (old macintosh who do nothing)


      raf

  122. By Anonymous Coward (68.55.154.105) on

    moo
    omega
    rosie
    ishmael
    craig
    fish

  123. By Justin (24.143.150.108) on

    thedude

  124. By sbr (66.11.172.61) sbr@gnook.org on http://gnook.org/~sbr/

    laptop - tobias
    main server - jiyu
    extra box - kamakura
    firewall - kanmon
    oldbeast - hal6500
    oldfirewall - datatrain
    oldserver - kyoto

  125. By Jim Savage (199.46.199.231) cimsolve@comcast.net on

    hydra and balrog

  126. By ardwork (84.63.11.51) on

    Named my Gateway/Firewall PortaNigra , since its a gate, but supposed to not be seen like black things at night ... Porta Nigra actually is a Gate in Trier/Germany.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porta_Nigra

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