Re: ssh rulez

[Eric Hendrickson <edh@flavius.boston.deshaw.com>]

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?

Thanks, Eric

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

> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> 
> > Someone told me that ssh was quite good at compressing things, so I
> > switched compression on and used the following select method:
> > 
> > (nntp "news"
> >        (nntp-address "copper.uio.no")
> >        (nntp-rlogin-program "ssh")
> >        (nntp-open-connection-function nntp-open-rlogin)
> >        (nntp-end-of-line "\n")
> >        (nntp-rlogin-parameters
> >         ("telnet" "news.uio.no" "nntp")))
> 
> All that happens when I do something like this is that Gnus hangs.
> 
> If I point ssh at port 119 or 25 or any other that gives a welcome
> message other than the standard telnet message I get this sort of
> error:
> 
> $ ssh localhost -p 119
> Bad remote protocol version identification: '200 typhoon.ncc.co.uk
> InterNetNews server INN 1.7 16-Oct-1997 ready
> 
> Am I doing something wrong?
> 
> -- 
> Eze Ogwuma
> 
> 

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