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From: Ronald Fischer <rovf@feriasonline.pt.invalid>
Subject: Re: server connection broken - issue reconsidered, new info
Date: 28 Aug 2002 08:20:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m23cszo669.fsf@karfiol.glp.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vaffzx0o5sa.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de>

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai   =?iso-8859-15?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) writes:

> Ronald Fischer <rovf@feriasonline.pt.invalid> writes:
> > Gnus talks to the news server via nntp protocol on my internet connection,
> > while ssh would just open a secure remote shell to some target system,
> > right?
> 
> You can tell ssh to redirect a port.  So connecting to port X on
> localhost actually makes a connection to port Y on a different host,
> thanks to ssh port forwarding.

Are there any circumstances where Gnus is magically using ssh, without
me telling this *explicitly* in .gnus?

Ronald
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       reply	other threads:[~2002-08-28  6:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found] ` <vafvg5x3lbq.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
     [not found]   ` <m2lm6shas5.fsf@karfiol.glp.de>
     [not found]     ` <vaffzx0o5sa.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
2002-08-28  6:20       ` Ronald Fischer [this message]
     [not found]         ` <vafadn7fg8k.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
2002-09-03 10:00           ` Ronald Fischer

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