From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/15090 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eze Ogwuma Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: ssh rulez Date: 26 Apr 1998 12:44:20 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035154181 20075 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:49:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:49:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from gwyn.tux.org (gwyn.tux.org [207.96.122.8]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA26532 for ; Sun, 26 Apr 1998 04:47:51 -0700 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (root@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by gwyn.tux.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA04929 for ; Sun, 26 Apr 1998 07:50:45 -0400 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAH27277; Sun, 26 Apr 1998 06:50:49 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 26 Apr 1998 06:47:52 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA27264 for ; Sun, 26 Apr 1998 06:47:44 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 17215 invoked by uid 504); 26 Apr 1998 11:47:27 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 17212 invoked from network); 26 Apr 1998 11:47:26 -0000 Original-Received: from mailhost.dircon.co.uk (194.112.50.75) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 26 Apr 1998 11:47:25 -0000 Original-Received: from typhoon.ncc.co.uk (zcaceog@bh-cw03-239.pool.dircon.co.uk [194.112.51.239]) by mailhost.dircon.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA05366; Sun, 26 Apr 1998 12:47:22 +0100 (BST) Original-Received: (from zcaceog@localhost) by typhoon.ncc.co.uk (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA01513; Sun, 26 Apr 1998 12:46:16 +0100 Original-To: ericdh@tiac.net In-Reply-To: Eric Hendrickson's message of "22 Apr 1998 14:27:50 -0400" X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.4/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Original-Lines: 34 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:15090 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:15090 Eric Hendrickson 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> 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