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Re: ditto by The Happiness Engine 05/23/2013, 3:55pm PDT
Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:

I saved a copy of the BBS and would love to put that up some place. Using DOSbox, would a linode machine allow people to telnet in?
Yes it will. In fact you should probably look into stopping a lot of them. You have a machine. On the Internet. Go. I would recommend step one be set up some form of firewalling. Luckily, out of band console access makes blowing up your networking painless.

I can't use my home computer because I drop my internet connection constantly and get a new IP all the time.
Services like DynDNS are made for this. Register a domain, pay the nice man, run their client. Whenever your IP changes the client tells DynDNS to update your DNS records, which should have low enough TTLs to expire quickly enough.

And if I wanted one of these VMs to access a directory on my home computer, so it could let me access music from anywhere, could that work too?
Yup. All you need to do is set up the proper services on the Linode side and then connect to it. Again, some form of firewalling would probably be a good idea here too.


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Linux VPS Hosting by Ice Cream Jonsey 05/22/2013, 9:12am PDT NEW
    yep by jeep 05/22/2013, 9:27am PDT NEW
        ditto by The Happiness Engine 05/22/2013, 4:19pm PDT NEW
            Re: ditto by Ice Cream Jonsey 05/23/2013, 8:41am PDT NEW
                Re: ditto by The Happiness Engine 05/23/2013, 3:55pm PDT NEW
                    I use no-ip.org instead of dyndns. It's free as all hell. NT by Last 05/24/2013, 7:37pm PDT NEW
            Re: ditto by Ice Cream Jonsey 05/23/2013, 8:44am PDT NEW
                Re: ditto by The Happiness Engine 05/23/2013, 3:48pm PDT NEW
                    there's literally an rpm just to turn on auto yum update NT by jeep 05/24/2013, 6:34pm PDT NEW
    I have a related question by motherfuckerfoodeater 05/23/2013, 11:54pm PDT NEW
        I haven't done a strict comparison by The Happiness Engine 05/24/2013, 3:01pm PDT NEW
            Drunken followup after rereading the original question by The Happiness Engine 05/24/2013, 3:08pm PDT NEW
        I have, linode's cheaper by jeep 05/24/2013, 6:35pm PDT NEW
            if you need tons of them ec2 is better and has the cool api shit NT by jeep 05/24/2013, 6:36pm PDT NEW
    I got one! So, some questions... by Ice Cream Jonsey 06/08/2013, 10:29am PDT NEW
        Re: I got one! So, some questions... by blackwater 06/17/2013, 12:09am PDT NEW
            Re: I got one! So, some questions... by Fullofkittens 06/17/2013, 7:24am PDT NEW
                Re: I got one! So, some questions... by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 06/17/2013, 9:20am PDT NEW
        Re: I got one! So, some questions... by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 06/17/2013, 4:41am PDT NEW
        Re: I got one! So, some questions... by motherfuckerfoodeater 06/17/2013, 10:42am PDT NEW
        This may be a strange question, but by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 06/17/2013, 10:56am PDT NEW
            Have you thought about rooting yourself? It saves us time. NT by Sincerely, Haxx0rs 06/17/2013, 2:44pm PDT NEW
            Fucking Christ, Paul NT by Entropy Stew 06/17/2013, 9:33pm PDT NEW
        I just thought, how about the reverse? by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 06/17/2013, 11:08am PDT NEW
        Re: I got one! So, some questions... by The Happiness Engine 06/17/2013, 2:54pm PDT NEW
 
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