Off-campus access to MFCF newsservers

[Bill Ince [MFCF]]

On Sun, 2 Nov 1997 20:29:21 GMT eaha...@descartes.uwaterloo.ca wrote:
>
>Having lost hope with the sporadic and incomplete uw.* hierarchy on my
>ISP's newsfeed, I set about finding a way to access the MFCF newsservers
>from my own ISP here in Toronto. So I ended up using SSH to connect to
>news.math.uwaterloo.ca and map its port 119 to an unused port on my local
>machine, and then point my usenet client to my own IP on that mapped port.
>
>Other than perhaps being overkill (SSH-ing public forums seems... odd) is
>there any reason why this shouldn't be done; ie does it impose undue load
>on the news.math machine, or do other funky stuff that might Piss Off
>Admins And Other Users?
>
>Or is there a better way do do this, something that I can map ports with
>but without the additional encryption overhead? I can always run TRN via
>logon, but I'd prefer to run everything locally. Thanks!
>
>
>

TWRathborne's followup looks like it says all that's needed.
I.e. yes, it's ok, but avoid the encryption.

[Ethan A. Hall-Beyer]

>Last time I checked, the "no encryption" option wasn't built into
>the sshes (I think that's the plural of ssh) on the undergrad
>machines.

Indeed... In fact, since I'm also redirecting the mail ports, I
actually want the encryption enabled. Ideally a zeno could do it,
but it appears that they aren't running it.

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[Chris Buchanan]

In article <EJ2qt...@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>,

Last time I checked, the "no encryption" option wasn't built into

the sshes (I think that's the plural of ssh) on the undergrad
machines.

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