Rob,
Thanks for the clarification. Even without full DNS control, Speakeasy
really does give a LOT of tool to the geeks who know how to use them and can
appreciate them.... it just costs a fair amount more. Actually... I don't
know that for a fact since I haven't had Speakeasy for about two years.
Back then, I think I was paying about $110 for 1.5Mb/s down and 384Kb/s up
with 3 static IPs. I might have stayed with them, but I was a distance from
the CO where I couldn't qualify for any higher speeds, and they were
unwilling to lower my bill to be competitive, so I finally switched.
I download and test numerous distros and Live Linux CD's, so I've found
having the fatter pipe ended up being more of an advantage to me than being
able to (legitimately) run an FTP server.
Speaking of file transfer.... I've pretty much stopped using FTP and have
instead started using scp and fish, which both operate over ssh and though a
little slower than ftp, are more secure. WinSCP (free and open source) can
be used from Windows boxen, and if one runs KDE desktop, you can just fire
up Konqueror and put fish://{servername} in the address bar and you will be
prompted for username and password. What's really cool about fish is that
it allows you to use those remote files as if they were a mounted part of
your file system, right there on the desktop.
Joe
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Sherwood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 8:47 AM
Subject: Re: [UM-LINUX] High-speed internet
On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 08:13:24AM -0400, Joe Murphy wrote:
I wonder what else Speakeasy provided that I didn't know about. That DNS
for free would have been nice!
Just to make sure I didn't mislead you, it's not "DNS for free". I run
my own DNS for the domain "myleft.net" so I can tell people who lookup
"myleft.net" to go to my IP. However, I don't own/control the DNS space
for the arpa.in-addr.* domain which contains IP addresses, and
specifically
don't control arpa.in-addr.61.161.92.66 (i.e., my IP backwards) -
speakeasy
does. Normally this resolves to residential-66.92.161.61.speakeasy.net
(or something
similar). What speakeasy provides is a service where you can ask them to
set
it your domain so that the forward and reverse lookups work correctly.
- Rob
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