These two scripts will randomly generate a hostname for a server (using the pool of words comes from Oren Tirosh's mnemonic encoding project) or a workstation (using characters from the Marvel Universe).

Just run the script and provide the number of hostnames you'd like to generate:

$ ./genhost 4
romeo.example.com
holiday.example.com
jester.example.com
spiral.example.com

All of those words will automatically be commented out in the word list and thus removed from the pool of future names. If a hostname has the potential to be confusing based on technical jargon (like email.example.com), simply ignore it and generate a replacement.

For collaboration purposes, don't forget to commit the updated word list back to a shared Git repository so names do not get reused:

$ git add wordlist
$ git commit
$ git push

I also like to sort the text files so I know what has been used:

$ sort wordlist -o wordlist

I worte two simple Python scripts:

Download a list of Marvel Universe characters for the workstations-wordlist.

Removes entries found in the servers-wordlist that are already in the workstations-wordlist.