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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!Germany.EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!sgigate.sgi.com!newsfeeder.sdsu.edu!in-news.erinet.com!izzy.net!inet-prime.comshare.com!valhalla.comshare.com!not-for-mail From: Mike Pelletier <mikep@comshare.com> Newsgroups: news.software.nn,news.software.readers,news.software.nntp,comp.security.firewalls,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: NNTP through firewall ? Date: 19 Jun 1996 15:41:15 -0400 Organization: Comshare, Inc. - Ann Arbor, Michigan Lines: 22 Sender: mikep@valhalla.comshare.com Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4q9l4r$ge5@valhalla.comshare.com> References: <4q9dcv$5v4@tuba.cit.cornell.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: valhalla.comshare.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au news.software.nn:8029 news.software.readers:27875 news.software.nntp:23687 comp.security.firewalls:2847 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:21686 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? -Mike Pelletier.