From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/33042 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Makholm Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: tunneling nntp connection Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 14:14:35 GMT Organization: The Danish Cabal Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035169222 23072 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 03:00:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:00:22 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from spinoza.math.uh.edu (spinoza.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.18]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96893D049A for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 09:15:07 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by spinoza.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id IAB15869; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 08:15:00 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 31 Oct 2000 08:14:22 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@66-209.196.61.interliant.com [209.196.61.66] (may be forged)) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA17748 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 08:14:13 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (sunsite.auc.dk [130.225.51.30]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 98584D049A for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 09:14:38 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (qmail 25320 invoked by uid 509); 31 Oct 2000 14:14:36 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: emacs.ding Original-Lines: 19 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 130.225.96.226 Original-X-Trace: twister.sunsite.auc.dk 973001675 130.225.96.226 (Tue, 31 Oct 2000 15:14:35 MET) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 15:14:35 MET Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:33042 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:33042 Stainless Steel Rat writes: > Step one: use SSH. You don't want passwords bouncing around in the clear. I use rsh (and curses a lot when I try running gnus from a hpux (where rsh is restricted shell)) and that works too. It depends how secure you inner network is. > Step twp: use Netcat (nc). It works like telnet except that it is totally > clean and transparent. Why nc instead of telnet? Any reasons except that it is a more minimal solution to the problem (which is a quite good reason if you ask me) -- "If I had been brought up in a different time [...] perhaps I'd be totally comfortable in ML and would find C unsafe, a little dangerous, not very expressive." - Brian Kernighan