If you have a shell account on a utexas.edu machine you could probably use
ssh port forwarding to do this. something like
'ssh -f -L 1025:newshost.cc.utexas.edu:119 cs.utexas.edu sleep 100'
assuming cs.utexas.edu is the machine where you have a shell account. You
might also need to add -l username if you have a different username on
your home machine. You could also set up ssh-agent and ssh-add so you only
have to enter a password once per session. The sleep command needs to be
long enough to make a connection to the newsserver. Then you can you can
point your newsreader to localhost:1025
I have heard that newshost.cc.utexas.edu will soon be allowing access with
username/password to people connecting from outside UT. Perhaps
cs.utexas.edu already has this feature? You might want to check with the
news administrator and find out.
On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Mengmeng Zhang wrote:
> Hello... this question isn't really directly related to Linux, but I'm
> hoping somebody might be able to help. My roommate and I are connected
> right now through RoadRunner, which means we can't directly access the UT
> newsgroups. I've always used tin on my CS account, but my roomie would
> like to be able to use Netscape or something similar to read the news... I
> also often find it convenient to be able to use lynx on my home machine to
> access a newsgroup on the fly. Does anybody know of a way to do this? I
> thought about setting up a proxy server somehow, but squid only supports
> HTTP, FTP, and gopher. Instead of newshost.cc.utexas.edu, which simply
> gives a "You can't talk" error, I also tried news.cs.utexas.edu, but that
> requires a username and password. (At least that's what lynx told me when
> I tried news://news.cs.utexas.edu) I tried using my CS account password,
> but that didn't work. Can anybody please help? Is it simply hopeless?
>
> Thank you very much,
> Mengmeng
>
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