All of my network devices have JAV actress names, lol.

Is this story by any chance about you?

  Every variable and every method name was given a female first name. "Each of these is named for one of Sten's girlfriends." Given the number of names required, it was improbable that these were real girlfriends, but Sten gave no hint about this being fiction.

https://thedailywtf.com/articles/my-many-girlfriends

My first ISP used female names for their Sun servers, reportedly ex-girlfriends of the owner.

May their filesystems get the fsck'ing they need

Cringe intensifies.

well, that's gross

None in mine. His plot modules conveniently put him at other houses when my hobbits are in trouble. I did have an attack box named "Sting" however.

I dialed into a Gandalf Box at the university:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandalf_Technologies

I've seen elven names, I've seen planets, I've seen Hindu deities, I've seen 7 dwarves, and then there's boring corp names that actually provide useful information about purpose/location/etc.

You can definitely tell personalities by system names.

I go for Douglas Adams references across the board, which I think may be tied with Tolkien as the global leader for this sort of thing.

I had one in our org back in the day.

We had a number of boxes named following this theme. For instance, the firewall box was named pelennor.

None here, but I have a trio of OpenBSD servers named Athos (MariaDB), Aramis (http), and Porthos (mail).