dextro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> does anyone know of a way to access the newshost.cc.utexas.edu news
> server from off campus, i am using earthlink and they dont carry one of
> the news groups for a class of mine, i used to telnet through a friends
> box on that is on campus but that is no longer an option any ideas? i
> have written earthlink to ask them to carry the news group but i would
> still like to be able to access the ut server.
What' I've done in the past is ssh'd into one of the on campus boxes, and then
tunneled a netscape session through the ssh tunnel. (You shouldn't have to
do anything special, just ssh into a box and run netscape&) you can also
ssh in and use tin/etc and get the amil .. but basically any way you look at
it, you're going to have to be on an on-campus machine. Chris mentioned
that deja news carried the UT groups .. I'm going to check on that today.
And btw to all you people telnetting into ANY machine ... STOP!
SSH is your friend. Encryption is good. Don't be a gimp and have someone
use your account because your password was sniffed.
PLUS SSH does compression on your session, so it will actually speed
up your terminal session. Did I mention that ssh tunnels X sessions too?
I knew I peaked your interest ... there are clients for windows and
unix ... go get yours today!
http://www.cs.hut.fi/ssh/
Aaron
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