I host my domains on Textdrive. I love it. It has all of the characteristics you mention, and it's run by people who are actually active in the open source world. Check them out.
Three hints in two days. Not bad, but I'm not sure it's sustainable. The most recent hint is about using OS X/Darwin's lookupd to run queries from the command line. Hopefully it will save someone some Googling.
With the above being said, RST will soon support proper user/group lookups from FIT. I had a bit of a rant on my blog about the whole NetInfo situation, and this at least quells most of the anger.
I may still move forward with a pure-Ruby NetInfo interface, but don't count on it. With the recent announcement of a move away from PPC, I am much more likely to invest the effort in RST or other projects.
That being said, if anyone knows of a pure-Ruby NetInfo interface, please let me know.
Back into the swing of things
I commented to my partner last night about how it's nice to get back into the swing of development. She is an aspiring developer -- she wants to learn how to program, but is contemplating how she'd like to do it.
I think that would be the thing to make it complete for me -- to be able to teach her. I have no doubt she would ask questions that would shake my understanding of quite a few things. I need to be shaken to keep learning, or I get complacent.
ruby-talk
I joined the ruby-talk mailing list today, and am so far doing well under the heavier-than-normal load in my GMail mailbox. I have a minor nit about accidentally deleting entire threads when I have one message archived (and want to keep it, but not new messages in the thread), but I'll live.