Re: [Pan-users] Port 119 blocked - no newsgroup access!

[Jim Henderson]

On Sat, 23 May 2015 13:47:59 -0700, walt wrote:

> On 05/21/2015 05:51 AM, Maurice wrote:
>> Last week I was in a French (Aix-en-Provence) hotel whose WiFi access
>> was blocking Port 119, so could not use Pan to access newsgroups.
>> 
>> Is there an alternative port I could have used, or any other
>> workaround?
> 
> I've never actually tried this method, (never needed to) but I think you
> could use a tool like ssh in "port forwarding" mode, depending on the
> news server, maybe.
> 
>  http://www.openssh.com/faq.html#2.11
> 
> 
> Anyone else know for sure if this would work for news?

That's one way of doing firewall piercing, yes - you need a system on the 
outside of the protected network to do it.

BTW, if SSL/TLS support is not compiled in, stunnel is an option to get 
SSL/TLS support without rebuilding from scratch.

Jim

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