For some interesting free shell accounts check out www.shellasylum.com good
for outsite testing since they allow nmap.
>
>Shell accounts, advantages:
>
>1) A shell account allows you to examine your networks from the other side
>of the router (the internet) while being on this side of the router.
>2) Access to compilers and other programs, and to bitching hardware. If you
>are a student, with no computer, a shell account gets you compilers and
>other tools. I'm a sys op for an ISP with a multi-city MAN and WAN. A
>bitching Linux box, dual P III with a gig of memory came with the small ISP
>we acquired recently. I often use a shell and ftp to upload and run big
>builds and other jobs, it will do them in less than half the time the local
>servers would take.
>3) SSH and others make a remote shell reasonably secure.
>4) Remote shells mean I can telnet into the servers from home and fix
>things
>while still
>in my PJ's. I can check my mail anywhere in the world I can get a telnet
>session. I can fix things at night so I am not pounded by user complaints
>in
>the AM.
>
>James
>
>
>
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