Here are some Hurd boxes that users have made available to the public:

<table border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0">
  <tr>
    <th bgcolor="#99CCCC"><strong>Host Name</strong></th>
    <th bgcolor="#99CCCC"><strong>Operator</strong></th>
    <th bgcolor="#99CCCC"><strong>Access</strong></th>
    <th bgcolor="#99CCCC"><strong>Port</strong></th>
    <th bgcolor="#99CCCC"><strong>Distro</strong></th>
    <th bgcolor="#99CCCC"><strong>Machine Specs</strong></th>
    <th bgcolor="#99CCCC"><strong>Comments</strong></th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td> flubber.bddebian.com </td>
    <td>[[Barry_de_Freese|bddebian]]</td>
    <td> ssh </td>
    <td> 2250 </td>
    <td> Debian </td>
    <td> PII 550Mhz 384Mb </td>
    <td>   </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td> clubber.bddebian.com </td>
    <td>[[Barry_de_Freese|bddebian]]</td>
    <td> ssh </td>
    <td> 2251 </td>
    <td> Debian </td>
    <td> PIII 1Ghz 384Mb </td>
    <td>   </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td> gnubber.bddebian.com </td>
    <td>[[Barry_de_Freese|bddebian]]</td>
    <td> ssh </td>
    <td> 2254 </td>
    <td> Debian </td>
    <td> PII 733Mhz 384Mb </td>
    <td>   </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td> hurd.nipl.net </td>
    <td>[[AlastairPoole]]</td>
    <td> ssh </td>
    <td> 24 </td>
    <td> GNU </td>
    <td> AMD Sempron 2800 </td>
    <td> not sure if this machine is still alive </td>
  </tr>
</table>

To request an account on the _\*.bddebian.com_ machines either contact **bddebian** or **tschwinge** (other people might also be able to help) in [[IRC]] or send email to <hurd-shell-account@gnuNOSPAM.org>. Also use these contact addresses for requesting support with respect to software installations, etc.

For the _hurd.nipl.net_ host, please see <http://www.nipl.net/>.

To be able to use just `ssh [machine]`, you should append your public SSH key to _~/.ssh/authorized\_keys_ on the remote machine.

And if you don't want to worry about the machines's IP addresses changing (due to dial-up connection) or the host keys changing every now and then (when the machines are re-installed), put something like the following into _~/.ssh/config_ of the machine you connect from:

    Host clubber.bddebian.com clubber
      HostName clubber.bddebian.com
      Port 2251

    Host flubber.bddebian.com flubber
      HostName flubber.bddebian.com
      Port 2250

    Host gnubber.bddebian.com gnubber
      HostName gnubber.bddebian.com
      Port 2254

    Host *.bddebian.com clubber flubber gnubber
      CheckHostIP no
      UserKnownHostsFile /dev/null
      StrictHostKeyChecking no
      User [username]

-- [[Main/BarryDeFreese]] - 22 Feb 2006