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From: Richard Hoskins <rh@iglou.com>
Subject: Re: ssh rulez
Date: 28 Mar 1998 14:17:35 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3lntu62wg.fsf@iglou.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "28 Mar 1998 10:16:13 +0200"

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")))
> 

As root, I envoke ssh with: 

# ssh -C -o "CompressionLevel 9" -L 119:news.iglou.com:119 iglou.com 

and set the select method to (nntp "localhost").  ssh definitely
rulez.  



  parent reply	other threads:[~1998-03-28 19:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-03-28  8:16 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-03-28 16:43 ` Harry Putnam
1998-03-28 17:14   ` Bud Rogers
1998-03-28 19:17 ` Richard Hoskins [this message]
1998-03-29  8:04   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-03-29 19:39     ` Felix Lee
1998-03-29 20:12       ` Bud Rogers
1998-03-29 20:38         ` Felix Lee
1998-03-30 20:05           ` Richard Hoskins
1998-03-29 21:36         ` Alan Shutko
1998-03-30 13:01           ` Robert Bihlmeyer
1998-03-31 16:37 ` Francois Felix Ingrand
1998-04-01 14:06   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-03-31 21:46 ` Manoj Srivastava
1998-04-15  3:50 ` Eze Ogwuma
1998-04-22 18:27   ` Eric Hendrickson
1998-04-26 11:44     ` Eze Ogwuma
1998-07-12 19:07       ` Eric D. Hendrickson

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