From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/989 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ronald Fischer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: server connection broken - issue reconsidered, new info Date: 28 Aug 2002 08:20:46 +0200 Organization: Customer of SpaceNet GmbH Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rovf@feriasonline.pt NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138667832 9227 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:37:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:37:12 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:28:27 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!news.ccs.neu.edu!news.dfci.harvard.edu!news.cis.ohio-state.edu!usenet01.sei.cmu.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.stueberl.de!news.space.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-Sender: 7@karfiol.glp.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-1043.i-dial.de Original-X-Trace: news.space.net 1030515647 74854 193.149.52.236 (28 Aug 2002 06:20:47 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.space.net Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 06:20:47 +0000 (UTC) X-Home-Page: http://www.fusshuhn.de/ X-Attribution: Ronny User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.3 Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:1129 Original-Lines: 20 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 1129 Tue Jan 17 17:28:27 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:989 Archived-At: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-15?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) writes: > Ronald Fischer 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 -- To reduce spam in my inbox, the address given in the Reply-To: header is not guaranteed to live longer than 1 month after the article was posted. My permanent address is (after deleting the XXX): Ronald Otto Valentin Fischer