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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!torn!resunix.ri.sickkids.on.ca!resunix.ri.sickkids.on.ca!not-for-mail From: greig@resunix.ri.sickkids.on.ca (David Iain Greig) Newsgroups: news.software.nn,news.software.readers,news.software.nntp,comp.security.firewalls,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: NNTP through firewall ? Followup-To: news.software.nn,news.software.readers,news.software.nntp,comp.security.firewalls,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Date: 19 Jun 1996 22:42:06 -0400 Organization: NMR Core Facility, Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Ediacara Lines: 36 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4qadpu$km4@resunix.ri.sickkids.on.ca> References: <4q9dcv$5v4@tuba.cit.cornell.edu> <4q9l4r$ge5@valhalla.comshare.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: resunix.ri.sickkids.on.ca X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au news.software.nn:8030 news.software.readers:27893 news.software.nntp:23696 comp.security.firewalls:2857 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:21717 Mike Pelletier (mikep@comshare.com) wrote: : In article <4q9dcv$5v4@tuba.cit.cornell.edu>, : Rohan Oberoi <ro11@crux4.cit.cornell.edu> wrote: : >I have a Pentium running FreeBSD behind a firewall. I'm trying to access : >a news server on the net outside the firewall and am really not sure : >how to go about it. Has anyone tried doing this either with INN or : >some similar program pulling a feed through the firewall, or with : >NN or some similar program using the news server through the firewall's : >proxy server ? If you have any suggestions, I'd be grateful to : >hear them. : Rohan, : There's a program called "plug-gw" that's part of the TIS Firewall : Toolkit that allows you to assign a port on your firewall that "plugs" : through to the remote system's port. So if "server.foo.com" is the : news server you want to connect to, you can set up plug-gw so : that telnetting to port 1119 on your firewall will connect you : transparently to port 119 on server.foo.com. : I'm not quite sure where to find the source code, unfortunately, : could someone chime in with that info? 1st: What firewall? FWTK, Gauntlet, Raptor, Interlock, Border, IBN SNG, yada yada yada. Many commercial firewalls can permit NNTP across the firewall. A newsfeed might be more problematic. 2nd: ftp.tis.com ought to work. --D. ---- David Iain Greig, UNIX System Administrator Tel: (416) 813-5013 Research Computing Services Fax: (416) 813-7099 Hospital for Sick Children, 555 University Ave, Toronto, Ont. M5G 1X8 greig@sickkids.on.ca "Arbor plena allouatarum"