You can watch all the carnage right here on the spiffy stats that AMDave makes for this project.
http://stats.ironbits.net/statsnew/nplbstats.php
Great gauntlet stats AMDave

We are beating all teams combined by a very large margin. ZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

I just use the IP addresses myself
I do not know why the Linux clients have problems with dns.