At the risk of showing my age... In my own private home lab -- which has grown way too large -- I like using names of the Garbage Pail Kids [0] as hostnames.

At the risk of showing my age... In my own private home lab -- which has grown way too large -- I like using names of the Garbage Pail Kids [0] as hostnames. There's a few benefits to this naming scheme, when dealing with physical machines at least: 1) you can usually find a name that suits the "temperament" of the particular host and 2) you can tape the trading card to the host (or the rack, next to it) to make finding / identifying it easier. -- [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_Pail_Kids https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_Pail_Kids