Re: [Pan-users] complex question less to do with pan, more to do with internet

[Duncan]

On Wed 23 Apr 2003 22:51, address@hidden posted as excerpted below:
>       Well guys, lets face it, I have a crappy news server. I work for an
> ISP, and we use Giganews there, while at home I have Charter, which uses
> 'supernews.' 

SN policies **HIGHLY** discourage heavy multi-part binary users on their 
servers.  OTOH, for text group retention, I believe they are unmatched. with 
8 months last I was on it (w/ my former ISP), and a policy of keeping AT 
LEAST 6 months of text posts available, IIRC.  Some folks hate SN for it, 
others purchase indi accounts specifically for the text retention and 
anti-spam measures (incl. no binaries in other than alt.binaries).

> anywho, I was trying to figure out a way to get Giganews from work, to
> my house.
>
> I was looking into setting up a Samba drive, that I could access through
> the internet. I was advised against this for security reasons. 

.. And rightly so.  That's not the best idea, security-wise.

> I was
> also thinking of how to wrap the packets coming in via TCP to get it
> from work to home.
>
> problem: I don't want to download the stuff, then FTP it. I'd like to
> save it directly to my house.. if possible.

You may wish to look into LeafNode as the work-side news proxy.  I haven't 
personally tried it or looked into it in any depth, but someone once set up 
for me an account with LeafNode access on his machine, so I could continue my 
activity in the DSL support group for my former ISP.  (There were three 
regulars, including me, in the group, that answered most of the questions.)

I don't know how secure LeafNode access can be made, but I know it can be set 
up on arbitrary ports, as I had access to it thru port 8888 I think it was, 
rather than the standard NNTP 119, to access it thru firewalls.  Whether it 
does securely authenticated access I don't know (does PAN?? never had to 
check)..

-- 
Duncan
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