Re: news server with socks proxy howto?

[Gernot Hassenpflug]

poppyer <poppyer@gmail.com> writes:

> Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> writes:
>
>> >>>>> In <wmy7iwt47b.fsf@clpc78.comlab> poppyer wrote:
>> 
>> >         I would like to use gnus to connect to two news servers. In
>> > particular, say, I would like to connect to server "news1.org" directly,
>> > and connect to "news2.org" by socks proxy "proxy.net". Any idea how to
>> > set it up? Thanks
>> 
>> If you have an account in an intermediate host machine outside
>> of the proxy server and you can access it using ssh or telnet
>> through the proxy, the nntp-via-* methods are what you look for.
>> 
>> (info "(gnus)Example Methods") <-- type `C-x C-e' here.
>
> -- 

/repaired top posting/

> thanks, Katsumi
> but it seems that only nntp-via-telnet/rlogin are valid?
> I intend to use nntp-via-ssh is possible.
>

Not true, see the manual. I admit that I could not debug this when it
did not work at times (after some updates on my previous system) and
often used a separate forwarded port ssh connection and then a
localhost NNTP access. I suspect it works fine now.

>From nntp.el (see manual for example and variable options):

,----
| (defvoo nntp-via-rlogin-command "rsh"
|   "*Rlogin command used to connect to an intermediate host.
| This command is used by the methods `nntp-open-via-rlogin-and-telnet'
| and `nntp-open-via-rlogin-and-netcat'.  The default is \"rsh\", but \"ssh\"
| is a popular alternative.")
`----

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