On Thu 23 September 2004 23:33, John N. Alegre wrote:
On Thursday 23 September 2004 16:21, Leendert Meyer wrote:
Hmm, if you set up an ssh tunnel with port forwarding, with the server's news port (nntps, port 563) connected to a local port (e.g. nntp, 119), and you connect with your news client to localhost:119, wouldn't that work?
Could I ask you to elaborate for a dummy?
My newserver port 563 is SSL. Am I wrong in just thinking that I can find a newsreader that suppots SSL and set the connection port in that newsreader to 563 and have an SSL connection to and from the newsreader?
Leendert has elaborated for you in another mail... But this situation is a good example of how many things in *nix systems work. Rather than building in SSL to a news reader (and a mail client and chat client etc...) we use a two separate programs 'bolted together'. What he suggests for port forwarding of the news client can be used for forwarding almost any port. -- GPG fingerprint = 3D45 5509 D380 26A4 523E A9D8 A66A 5F38 CA43 BB0E