| Stephen Gran on 25 May 2007 00:44:28 -0000 |
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On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 06:53:32PM -0400, Jeff Abrahamson said: > For me, I want fixed IP (currently) because > > - I receive mail In my experience, that's a show stopper. Dynamic DNS is pretty good, but if you're away from home for a few days and your DynDNS client gets confused, you lose mail. My parent's firewall/router uses DynDNS so I can keep track of it, but i have had to also set up a script to send me it's IP when it changes, since the updates do fail. > - I want to be able to ssh into my box > - Maybe I want to set up an asterisk server These are more likely to work, for some value of work. > [1] I'm finishing my PhD (defense to be scheduled for Fall), but have > a CS-ish job starting in September at a finance firm in London. Welcome to this side of the world! I'm not all that close (2 hours by train) but I'm down in London a couple of times a year. It would be good to catch up again when you're settled in. > [2] and to deal with eventual blocked ports, depending on my ISP The two best ISP's I've found here are Zen and Blackcat. Zen is much bigger, and is a little cheaper because of that. Blackcat is more like DCANet - small, friendly, and competent. All 3 of the people who work there are Debian developers, and they offer a routed RIPE assigned netblock and native IPv6. You can assign reverse DNS yourself via a web interface, and it typically takes effect within half an hour. > [3] If anyone has any suggestions or advice (pro or con) on virtual > debian boxes to be rented, I would appreciate that, too. With this sort of thing, you get what you pay for. At work, we rent a few for ~$13/month, but they're pretty low end. They often get overloaded and are painful to work with (it doesn't really matter, as they're just doing monitoring and scratch setups, so it's not really interactive). For decent VoIP, you'll want something a little snappier, probably. Cheers, -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | YOU!! Give me the CUTEST, PINKEST, | | steve@lobefin.net | most charming little VICTORIAN | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | DOLLHOUSE you can find!! An make it | | | SNAPPY!! | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attachment:
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