[Gllug] GPS and News servers

[Xander D Harkness]

Russell G. Howe wrote:

>On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 06:27:19PM +0100, Xander D Harkness wrote:
>  
>
>>A couple of questions this evening :-)
>>
>>I have a news server that I am able to access from home; however I want 
>>to be able to access the news server remotely.  Is there any news proxy 
>>software or similar facility I could use?
>>    
>>
>
>ssh in and use slrn or equivalent?
>
>Use ssh's port forwarding for the nntp port? (can use compression to
>possibly speed things up)
>
>I even added iptables rules for a friend to NAT her NNTP connections to
>appear to be from my box (this was so she could access news servers via
>a high-numbered port on my machine, as the uni blocked NNTP)
>
>  
>
I have had difficulty with slrn connecting to IPv6 hosts, similarly I 
have not yet succeeded in getting IPv4 to IPv6 ssh forwarding working. 
(Not sure if it does; I shall investigate today :-)

Kind regards
Xander
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