I finally splurged and shelled out $10 for a one-year DynDNS basic subscription.
Here's the setup I have, using port range redirection (thanks to nikolasco and taiji_jian):

System SSH Port
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hirilonde.dyndns.org 50022
numerramar.dynalias.com 51022
telperion.game-server.cc 52022
mandos.homelinux.net 53022
este.selfip.biz 54022
kow.gotdns.com 55022
laurelin.homeip.net 56022
yavanna.homeunix.com 57022
tulkas.kicks-ass.net 58022
vaire.dyndns.info 59022

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Banazir

Do only what only you can do.
    -E. W. Dijkstra

taiji_jian is going to laugh at me for still harping on this, but 99% of you haven't heard it, so here goes:

When you want to look up an IP by hostname (e.g., fingolfin.user.cis.ksu.edu, www.kddresearch.org, etc.), what program do you use?

I use nslookup. gondhir revealed the other day that he uses ping, to which I took exception because:

• 1. Its specification does not (to my knowledge) guarantee that it prints an IP address; this is a side effect of certain implementations, whereas the primary purpose of nslookup is to map names to and from IP addresses.


• 2. It uses active sensing when the ("non-authoritative") answer may be readily available on the local domain name server without recourse to going out into the great wide Internet.


• 3. It is interactive. Some versions of it print continuously to standard output, and some stop after a default maximum of 4 pings (the Windows version, for example).

gondhir made sarcastic light of my aversion to hitting Ctrl-C when I shouldn't have had to, which earned him a pedantic little rant about streams, OS specificity, program control flow (Ctrl-C being a BREAK mechanism), and interactivity being taken for granted by punk kids today, with their hair and their clothes. :-D

( Only a SITH cuts computing corners )

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Banazir

Another fortnight, another bunch of computer problems.
( Old problems and an update )

And now, the new problems:
( Build me a system worthy of Mordor: a state-of-the-art SMP multimedia rig )
( Banazir versus the Echthroi II - A Wind in the Core: X on Debian )
( Vidding on a Shoestring Budget: bargain basement video editor cards and editing software )

Thanks very much en avance!

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Banazir