Here's an incomplete list of what you might want to do with an account...
1) You want to get to a web site at www.foo.net however your home net
connection cannot connect. People on the mailing list/IRC say that the site
is working. You could ssh to horse and see if its your connection or your
ISP that is faulty.
2) You've made a change to the DNS for mydomain.geek.nz, but your ISP
has cached the old DNS record. You want to make sure its working so check
it with a quick host command from somewhere else on the net.
3) You've just installed IP cop 1.4 and want to nmap yourself from the
outside.
4) You want somewhere to host a linuxy web page.
5) Test a threaded app on a multi-CPU box.
6) Traceroute to your IP or another site to help diagnose internet
problems.
... Anyone add more ...
Later stuff:
Email aliases - [EMAIL PROTECTED] redirect to
whatever address you want
CVS server
... Anyone add more ...
It's a tool, and a privelage for being a member of CLUG
-----Original Message-----
From: Brendan Greer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, 2 October 2004 10:04 p.m.
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: horse, was RE: CLUG and the yellow-eyed penguin
Hi
This is a newbie question.
What would a person want an account on another machine for?
