NNTP Mirror

I use a free news service at work which I am not very happy with. My ISP at
home has a very good NNTP server, but I cannot get to it from work due to
the firewall, and I think the NNTP server validates my IP address to make
sure that it is one of its own. It rejects my work IP address, of course.

I can tunnel into my linux server using ssh and have successfully mapped to
an Oracle database there.

I am wondering if I can somehow setup an NNTP mirror on my linux box to pull
certain newsgroups, and then use that server via a tunnel from work.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

On 2004-08-04, Buck Turgidson <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> I am wondering if I can somehow setup an NNTP mirror on my linux box to pull
> certain newsgroups, and then use that server via a tunnel from work.

Besides the fact that the 'best' solution would be to talk with your
sysadmin and have a 'local' news server installed, why don't you
install leafnode on your home machine?

Davide

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On Wed, 4 Aug 2004, Davide Bianchi wrote:

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>
> On 2004-08-04, Buck Turgidson <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> > I am wondering if I can somehow setup an NNTP mirror on my linux box to pull
> > certain newsgroups, and then use that server via a tunnel from work.
>
> Besides the fact that the 'best' solution would be to talk with your
> sysadmin and have a 'local' news server installed, why don't you
> install leafnode on your home machine?
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> Davide
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> | Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. -- Milton Friedman
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Thanks, I'll give that a look. I am posting this reply with pine.
Let's see if it works.....

Well, I did the similar arrangement with INND back home in Bangladesh,
pulled all the news from a free NNTP host as obviously, it was
supporting nntp client access only.

I was using "cleanfeed" filter along with "newsx" from
http://www.kvaleberg.com/newsx.html for pulling news. You might use
"suck" for the similar news polling thingie.

Leafnode is great tool too. See here for setting up Leafnode as a
caching news proxy ..
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/garrykn.../leafnode.html



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raqueeb hassan
congo (drc)

On Wed, 4 Aug 2004 09:41:42 -0400, "Buck Turgidson"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>I use a free news service at work which I am not very happy with. My ISP at
>home has a very good NNTP server, but I cannot get to it from work due to
>the firewall, and I think the NNTP server validates my IP address to make
>sure that it is one of its own. It rejects my work IP address, of course.
>
>I can tunnel into my linux server using ssh and have successfully mapped to
>an Oracle database there.
>
>I am wondering if I can somehow setup an NNTP mirror on my linux box to pull
>certain newsgroups, and then use that server via a tunnel from work.
>
>Any ideas would be appreciated.
>

Leafnode on your home system, from the sound of it.

Mike-

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On Wed, 04 Aug 2004 14:01:16 -0700, Raqueeb Hassan wrote:
> Well, I did the similar arrangement with INND back home in Bangladesh,
> pulled all the news from a free NNTP host as obviously, it was
> supporting nntp client access only.
>
> I was using "cleanfeed" filter along with "newsx" from
> http://www.kvaleberg.com/newsx.html for pulling news. You might use
> "suck" for the similar news polling thingie.
>
> Leafnode is great tool too. See here for setting up Leafnode as a
> caching news proxy ..
> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/garrykn.../leafnode.html

I was wrestling with this choice at one point, years ago. I decided to run
"inn", even though it is more complicated, but it is more flexible. I
wanted to be able to map some mailing lists onto "local newsgroups" and
had thoughts of setting up some newsgroups for projects. I use "suck" to
download those newsgroups that are interesting to me. Uploading posts from
my local inn server is done using a script supplied with inn. YMMV

Might be interesting to get some other opinions? Has anyone considered
"leafnode" vs. "inn" and (even though close?) decided to go the other way?
Seems pretty obvious if you just want standard newsgroups go "leafnode"?

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Juhan Leemet
Logicognosis, Inc.

Juhan,

Well, for me INN was great when it comes to storing news in bigger
storage, spanning multi hard drives ... cnfs! Not long ago, I thought
of archiving common freeBSD and linux newsgroups with INN, yes, wild
idea, I know! Couldn't make it for long, cause it was filling the hard
drives pretty fast ...

I love INN for it's flexibility on everthing. But leafnode is great
for smaller groups.


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raqueeb hassan
congo (drc)


Juhan Leemet <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> I was wrestling with this choice at one point, years ago. I decided to run
> "inn", even though it is more complicated, but it is more flexible. I
> wanted to be able to map some mailing lists onto "local newsgroups" and
> had thoughts of setting up some newsgroups for projects. I use "suck" to
> download those newsgroups that are interesting to me. Uploading posts from
> my local inn server is done using a script supplied with inn. YMMV
>
> Might be interesting to get some other opinions? Has anyone considered
> "leafnode" vs. "inn" and (even though close?) decided to go the other way?
> Seems pretty obvious if you just want standard newsgroups go "leafnode"?

On 2004-08-04, Buck Turgidson <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> I use a free news service at work which I am not very happy with. My ISP at
> home has a very good NNTP server, but I cannot get to it from work due to
> the firewall, and I think the NNTP server validates my IP address to make
> sure that it is one of its own. It rejects my work IP address, of course.
>
> I can tunnel into my linux server using ssh and have successfully mapped to
> an Oracle database there.
>
> I am wondering if I can somehow setup an NNTP mirror on my linux box to pull
> certain newsgroups, and then use that server via a tunnel from work.
>
> Any ideas would be appreciated.
>
$ ssh -C -L 7890:nntp.favisp.co.uk:nntp my.home.connection.co.uk -p 443

then on your machine you use the news server on 127.0.0.1:7890

The '-p 443' is a trick to get through most company firewalls, you configure
sshd to listen both on port 22 and port 443 (https) and then to work they
just think its a secure web connection Of course if you can ssh to your
machine on port 22 then you can simple drop the '-p 443'.

I personally (for friends mainly) a copy of 'tinyproxy' bound to 'lo'
(127.0.0.1) and then you can use a simple full CONNECT proxy to route *any*
traffic. My friends use it for rdesktop/vnc and I used to use it for Jabber.

Have fun

Alex