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

[Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>]

>>>>> In <87vfk3fwgv.fsf@dod.no>
>>>>>	Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> wrote:

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

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

>>> I wonder why?

>> First I suspected XEmacs.  However, it actually works comfortably in
>> this way.

> I see the same problem in GNU Emacs 21.3.  Could it be something in my
> setup?  Is there a good way to debug what's going on?

Second, I suspect your ssh configuration.  There is the ssh.el
module in the os-utils XEmacs package.  It can be used in Emacs
as well.  Can you make a ssh connection to the intermediate host
using it?

M-x ssh RET hostname RET

then I get a shell window.  I am behind the socks5 firewall in
the office and my ssh configuration is slightly special.  Here
is the entry in my ~/.ssh/config file:

Host jpl.org
	CheckHostIP no
	Protocol 2
	ProxyCommand /usr/local/bin/connect -n %h %p

Where the connect program is used to pass ssh stream through the
firewall.  It is available at:

http://www.imasy.or.jp/~gotoh/ssh/connect.html

(It can also be used as a replacement of netcat.)

> Why is my " *server news.chello.no nntp *nntpd**" buffer empty?  Is
> that an indication of something?  The " *server news.gmane.org nntp  *nntpd**"
> is also empty.

> On a Gnus on a different machine, updated from CVS on March 11, both
> buffers contains what looks like NNTP traffic.  The news.chello.no
> setup on this other machine is different, bug the news.gmane.org setup
> is identical.