Re: ssh rulez

[edh@flavius.boston.deshaw.com (Eric D. Hendrickson)]

(Blast from the past here, but this is the first time I've had a
chance to look at my Gnus mail group in a while.)

Eze, thanks for your reply but I think what you (Kurt) are suggesting
is already taken into account by my solution below?  Doesn't work.

Eric

Eze Ogwuma <typhoon@dircon.co.uk> says: "I'm going to Paris and taking Eric"

> Eric Hendrickson <edh@flavius.boston.deshaw.com> writes:
> 
> > Gnus hangs for me also, when I try to open a similar server:
> > 
> > (nntp "news.tc.umn.edu"
> >       (nntp-address "birch.math.umn.edu")
> >       (nntp-rlogin-program "ssh")
> >       (nntp-rlogin-user-name "eric")
> >       (nntp-open-connection-function nntp-open-rlogin)
> >       (nntp-end-of-line "\n")
> >       (nntp-rlogin-parameters
> >        ("-x" "-C" "-o" "CompressionLevel" "9" "nc" "news.tc.umn.edu" "nntp")))
> > 
> > This is using nc (netcat) instead of telnet, but I tried it with
> > telnet just to make sure, and no luck there either.  Is there a way to
> > debug this?  I tried setting nntp-record-commands, but the *nntpd*
> > buffer is empty so it isn't even getting that far.
> > 
> > Any ideas on what I could be doing wrong?
> 
> I was sent this a while ago by Kurt Swanson <kurt@dna.lth.se>:
> 
>     Kurt> The idea is not to connect to your news server with ssh, but
>     Kurt> to connect via ssh over a slow link to machine that you log
>     Kurt> onto and from there connect to the news server via the usual
>     Kurt> telnet command.
> 
>     Kurt> I.e.: from home I connect to my office computer via my modem
>     Kurt> and ssh and from my office computer to my news server (which
>     Kurt> has a fast connection between them).  This is faster than a
>     Kurt> non-ssh direct connection to the news server.
> 
> -- 
> Eze Ogwuma
> 

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