Public server

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"How to setup your own server?"

Consider using nethack.alt.org and slashem.crash-override.net; both allow you to telnet in and play games or watch games in progress. They also have sortloot and menucolors.

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

List of public servers

Server	Location	Games	Other info
http://alt.org/nethack	California, USA	NetHack 3.4.3, SporkHack	NAO, the most popular server.
http://slackwell.com/nethack/	Sound Bend, IN, USA	NetHack 3.4.3
http://nethack.kraln.com/	Chicago, IL, USA	NetHack 3.4.3	Kraln's Nethack server.
http://sporkhack.com/	Cambridge, MA, USA	SporkHack	The SporkHack home server.
http://nethack.malformed.org/	Seattle, WA, USA		Vanilla nethack
http://nethack.creosotehill.org	Bainbridge Island, WA, USA		Vanilla home server.
http://nh.eotl.org/	Dallas, TX, USA	NetHack, Crawl Stone Soup
http://nostalgia.suroot.com/	Gothenburg, Sweden	NetHack 3.4.3
http://nethack.uib.no/	University of Bergen, Norway	NetHack
http://frn.imelaps.ee/nethack/	Tallinn, Estonia	NetHack
http://okul.bumpclub.ee/nethack/	Estonia	NetHack
http://nethack.fi/	Finland	NetHack 3.4.3	Uses same codebase as NAO.
http://nethack.unfoog.de	Nürnberg, Germany	NetHack, ATC	telnet nethack.unfoog.de - IRC: #nethack.de on Freenode
http://slashem.de	Germany	NetHack-De 3.4.3-20090119a, Slash'Em 0.0.8E0F1, ZAPM 0.6.3	ssh nethack@slashem.de password: fed or telnet slashem.de
http://nethack.devnull.net/	-	NetHack 3.4.3	/dev/null NetHack server and annual tournament
http://www.bbsgames.eu	-	NetHack, SLASH'EM, BBS Games