From: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Coaching to ssh port forward an NNTP connection
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 12:57:35 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877gf7m5q8.fsf@newsguy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a9k3ha0j.fsf@mmer.org>
Abramov Aleksey <levenson@mmer.org> writes:
[...]
>> Trouble is I cannot remember the first thing about how it was done or
>> find any notes I may have kept... this has been 10 or more yrs ago.
>>
>> Can anyone give an outline of how something like that might be done?
>>
>
> To create an ssh tunnel is pretty easy.
>
> # ssh -ANf -L5119:news.gmane.org:119 router.example.com
>
> # telnet localhost 5119
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to localhost.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 200 news.gmane.org InterNetNews NNRP server INN 2.5.1 ready (posting ok)
> Connection closed by foreign host.
>
> There could be only one problem, TCP forwarding shouldn't be disabled in
> sshd which you are connecting to.
>
> In my case the interesting thing is that, there is a http proxy before
> router. =)
In the command line you show above, what role does router.example.com
play? Are -L and router.example.com the same host
Do any of the participating hosts require root to do that?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-27 16:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-23 19:44 Harry Putnam
2013-08-27 7:23 ` Abramov Aleksey
2013-08-27 16:57 ` Harry Putnam [this message]
2013-08-27 17:13 ` Herbert J. Skuhra
2013-08-27 22:29 ` Harry Putnam
2013-08-27 23:03 ` Adam Sjøgren
2013-09-17 17:00 ` Harry Putnam
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