When we install a new machine, a desktop or a server or a xen guest or something else, one of the first things to decide is what to call it, ie. the hostname.
New hostnames
When setting up a new system, sometimes it’s difficult to come up with a good hostname, at other times they just appear out of nowhere. On this page I am maintaining a collection of hostnames. Some we have already used, some are new, some may never be used.
What qualifies a “good” hostname?
First and foremost a hostname has to be memorable – this makes it easier to associate a particular function with it. Depending on the language used, a hostname should also be easy to pronounce, hence not too long. I prefer two syllables names, but up to three syllables is acceptable too.
Category “City names”
oxford, leningrad, hamburg, newyork, chicago, sydney, dresden, toulouse, marseille, copenhagen, stockholm. cologne, heidelberg
madrid
bremen
london
Uncategorised
frost – “Frost”, a long-running ITV detective-series. DCI = Detective Chief Inspector.
waitrose – a UK supermarket chain
dartmoor
exmoor
camus
sherlock
watson
nietsche
gaillard
newton
chronicle
journal
baileys
johnny
walker
kepler
davinci
bradbury
bentley
veyron
bugatti
newton
dupont
haddock
tintin
spirou
figaro
gaston
lagaffe
tintin
idefix
majestix
obelix
asterix
hathaway
saopaulo
hobson – Laura Hobson, the pathologist in the TV-series “Lewis”.
greengrass – character in “Heartbeat”, ITV TV-series.
heartbeat
brideshead
vogelsang
hospital
emergency
catscan
elleryqueen
celcius
fahrenheit
wychwood – village in a Miss Marple mystery
theodora
madrid
moriarty
mycroft
sherlock
redheat
midsommer
glasgow
kestrel
redkite
orchid
flieder
elderberry / holunder
eagle
watson
frankfurt
sierra
kiowa
apache
sioux
stuttgart
rotterdam
amsterdam
rosewood
cherrywood
watchmaker
smith
fletcher
tailor
tinker
cobbler
joiner
dentist
psychic
gabriel
debenham
rowntree
hemlock
earlgrey
lipton
pgtips
tetley
guiness
chess
ludo
mozart
kinabalu
nietsche
kierkegaard
salman
rushdie
jensen
hansen
nielsen
rasmussen
hopper (in honour of former USN Rear Admiral Grace Hopper)
turing (in honour of Alan Turing).
deveraux
shorewood
turnbull
northmoor
southmoor
corrigan
tallyho
rotholz
rotkreuz
woodentop
blenheim
carmine
deadwood
chestnut
cherry