Can't connect with nntp-open-telnet

Can't connect with nntp-open-telnet

[Mark Denovich]

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My usenet server will only allow connections from the pitt.edu domain...
While I'm at work I can't read news, from the FAQ I thought the
following might get me around that problem:


(setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "firewall"
            (nntp-address "unixs.cis.pitt.edu")
            (nntp-open-server-function nntp-open-telnet)
            (nntp-end-of-line "\n")
            (nntp-telnet-user-name "madst38")
            (nntp-telnet-passwd "XXXXXXX")
            (nntp-telnet-parameters       ("telnet" "usenet.pitt.edu"
"nntp"))))

However this only replies with:

        Loading gnus-group...done
        Opening nntp server on firewall...
        Denied server

I'm a relative elisp-virgin, how can I receive more debugging info, or
did I just screw up the parameter list?

    --Mark


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Re: Can't connect with nntp-open-telnet

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Mark Denovich <madst38@pitt.edu> writes:

> My usenet server will only allow connections from the pitt.edu domain...
> While I'm at work I can't read news, from the FAQ I thought the
> following might get me around that problem:
> 
> (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "firewall"
>             (nntp-address "unixs.cis.pitt.edu")
>             (nntp-open-server-function nntp-open-telnet)
>             (nntp-end-of-line "\n")
>             (nntp-telnet-user-name "madst38")
>             (nntp-telnet-passwd "XXXXXXX")
>             (nntp-telnet-parameters       ("telnet" "usenet.pitt.edu"
> "nntp"))))

This should work, I think, although these things often take some
fiddling.  I've yet to come up with something that seems to work on
more than a couple of systems at a time.  :-)

I would suggest `M-x edebug-defun' on `nntp-open-telnet' in "nntp.el"
and SPC through it an see what happens, while keeping an eye on the
output in the " *nntpd*" buffer.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@ifi.uio.no * Lars Ingebrigtsen

Re: Can't connect with nntp-open-telnet

[Thor Kristoffersen]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes:
> > (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "firewall"
> >             (nntp-address "unixs.cis.pitt.edu")
> >             (nntp-open-server-function nntp-open-telnet)
> >             (nntp-end-of-line "\n")
> >             (nntp-telnet-user-name "madst38")
> >             (nntp-telnet-passwd "XXXXXXX")
> >             (nntp-telnet-parameters       ("telnet" "usenet.pitt.edu"
> > "nntp"))))
> 
> This should work, I think, although these things often take some
> fiddling.  I've yet to come up with something that seems to work on
> more than a couple of systems at a time.  :-)

I don't think he mentioned which version of Gnus he is using, but as
he is posting this to the ding list it is probably Red Gnus, and in
that case `nntp-open-server-function' must be replaced with
`nntp-open-connection-function'.


Thor
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