Re: ssh rulez

[Eze Ogwuma <typhoon@dircon.co.uk>]

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.

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Eze Ogwuma