Public server

A public server allows one to play NetHack or a variant in a shared space on the Internet where one can encounter other people's bones and see scores in the server's scorelist. You may also choose to watch someone's game that is in progress. You can access a public server by using a telnet or SSH client.

List of public servers

Server	Location	Games	How to connect
http://alt.org/nethack	California, United States	NetHack	telnet nethack.alt.org IRC: #nethack on freenode
http://nethack.kraln.com/	Washington DC, United States	NetHack Zork I The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy	telnet nethack.kraln.com
http://sporkhack.com/	Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States	SporkHack	ssh spork@sporkhack.com (identity file) telnet sporkhack.com IRC: #sporkhack on freenode
http://nh.eotl.org/	Dallas, Texas, United States	NetHack Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup	telnet nh.eotl.org 2000
http://nethack.fi/	Finland	NetHack	ssh nethack@nethack.fi (password "nethack" or identity file) telnet nethack.fi IRC: #nethack on IRCnet
http://nethack.feorar.org/	Germany	NetHack with a custom patchset, including the Heck² patch	telnet feorar.org
http://slashem.crash-override.net/	Nuremberg, Germany	SLASH'EM	ssh slashem@slashem.crash-override.net (password "slashem") telnet slashem.crash-override.net IRC: #slashem on freenode
http://slashem.de	Germany	SLASH'EM NetHack-De	ssh nethack@slashem.de (password "fed") telnet slashem.de
http://un.nethack.nu/	Sweden United States	UnNetHack	telnet eu.un.nethack.nu (EU) telnet us.un.nethack.nu (US) IRC: #unnethack on freenode
http://nethack.veekun.com/	Dallas, Texas, United States	NetHack with a custom patchset	ssh nethack@nethack.veekun.com (password "nethack" or identity file) IRC: #cafe on irc.veekun.com
nethack.proles.net	Germany	NetHack	telnet nethack.proles.net (IPv6 only)
http://acehack.eu/	Ireland	AceHack	ssh games@acehack.eu (password "games" or identity file) IRC: #acehack on freenode
http://acehack.us/	Virginia, United States	AceHack	ssh games@acehack.us (password "games" or identity file) IRC: #acehack on freenode
http://nethack.eu/	Germany	NetHack Air Traffic Control Tetris	telnet nethack.eu IRC: #nethack.de on freenode

Setting up your own server

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"How to setup your own server?"

There are several ways to manage your public NetHack server, but the most common is to use dgamelaunch, which manages user accounts and runs the NetHack processes in a chroot jail when a user telnets into the server.

For FreeBSD, there is a work-in-progress document describing how to set up a Nethack server with dgamelaunch, and also provides patches to make auto-login work with FreeBSD telnetd.

See Also

• Facebook has a NetHack app.
• Private server