Re: netcat supported in nntp-open-via-rlogin-and-telnet?

[Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>]

>>>>> Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>:

>>>>> In <87k70m5epf.fsf@dod.no>
>>>>>> Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> wrote:

> I've installed the nntp-open-via-rlogin-and-netcat function and
> new server variables nntp-netcat-command and nntp-netcat-switches.
> Those variables default to "nc" and nil respectively.

Thanx!  I tried this, yesterday, with the following setting:

(setq gnus-select-method
      '(nntp "news"
	     (nntp-address "news.chello.no")
	     (nntp-end-of-line "\r\n")
	     (nntp-open-connection-function nntp-open-via-rlogin-and-netcat)
	     (nntp-via-address "somehost.dyndns.org")
	     (nntp-via-rlogin-command "ssh")
	     (nntp-via-rlogin-command-switches ("-x" "-C" "-e" "none"))))

I tried it with different values for the nntp-via-rlogin-command-switches.

It doesn't work in that I can open the server in the server buffer,
and browse the available groups.

But if I wait it out, it doesn't report a failure when opening the
server, and it is listed as "open" in the server buffer.  I also
immediately get error messages like "503 Service unavaiable" (because
I had more than five separate connections from the same IP address).

So I guess it sort of works, but is slo-o-o-ow.

I wonder why?

When I do an ssh to the somehost.dyndns.org doing 
	nc news.chello.no nntp
I immediately get back a response from the NNTP server.