Re: news server with socks proxy howto?

[poppyer]

Gernot Hassenpflug <gernot@nict.go.jp> writes:

> poppyer <poppyer@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Hi, all,
> >         
> >         I would like to use gnus to connect to two news servers. In
> > particular, say, I would like to connect to server "news1.org" directly,
> > and connect to "news2.org" by socks proxy "proxy.net". Any idea how to
> > set it up? Thanks
> 
> I posted a howto on this in the group about 2 weeks ago, do a
> search. Maybe it will help you out. Basically, configure tsocks on
> your machine to handle the networks you want to access via proxy, and
> exceptions for those you don't want to handle via proxy. Then, start
> emacs with tsocks running, so gnus will do the NNTP connections
> (via telnet for you?) transparently over socks. 
> 

I didn't realize that I can configure tsocks to deal with
exceptions. Any hints about the tsocks.conf file? Thanks.


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