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shazbotus
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Location: Duke Univ.
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 Posted: Mon May 31, 2004 8:32 pm Post subject: Getting newsgroups remotely |
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| I am currently working at college this summer, and I was wondering how I'd be able to get the newsgroups that my home ISP offers (notably the binaries). The ISP only allows people with their IPs to get access to those newsgroups. Any advice? TIA. (I have a computer at home...maybe put together some sort of tunnel, but any way to get around the slow upload of cable modem? Basically, Id like to get full access to those newsgroups back home) |
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suso
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Location: Bloomington, IN
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| Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 4:33 pm Post subject: |
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Well there are a couple ways depending on your situation. If you have a computer at home that is online all the time then you could try using the 'suck' program to automatically download articles. There are a few others out there that will download binaries.
If you don't have a system at home or you prefer to use a GUI, you could try using an SSH tunnel to your home computer or if the ISP has one, a shell server at the ISP. Just run this:
| Code: | | ssh -L 8119:news.ispnewsserver.net:119 youraccount@ispshellserver.net |
That will create a tunnel, then you can configure a newsreader like Pan or slrn to connect to your local computer on localhost port 8119.
This technique works really well and is what I use to talk on IRC while at work behind a firewall that doesn't allow port 6667, but does allow 22. 
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nevynxxx
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| Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 4:53 pm Post subject: |
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Leafnode.
It is very nice, set it up on your hoime computer and forget about it. (It keeps itself clean and tidy).
Then set your box at uni to collect news from your box at home.
You might want to play with the firewall on your home box to make sure only you can read the news though, if you get others connecting and browsing things your ISP don't like you will be in lots of trouble.
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