NNTP accelerator?

[Rick Barry]

Thank you Tom and John.

Yes Stunnel looks like what I was looking for. I
simply did not know the actual function the
"accelerator" was using.

Very much appreciate the pointers!

Rick

--- thomas fisher <studio1 at commspeed.net> wrote:

> On Sunday 13 January 2008 20:51:04 John DeCarlo
> wrote:
> > On Jan 12, 2008 11:27 AM, Rick Barry
> <existentialsailor at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > I'm sorry if I wasn't clear. Many ISP's, at
> least in
> > > the US throttle the speed of the common ports
> used for
> > > NNTP such as port 119 and others. In windows I
> used an
> > > accelerator that was supplied by my usenet
> service
> > > which used port 563 instead and was able to
> download
> > > at the speed I'm paying my ISP for.
> > >
> > > I set my news reader to local host and the
> accelerator
> > > takes it from there. I was hoping there might be
> a
> > > similar software application for U 7.10 that I
> could
> > > use with PAN.
> >
> > The software you are talking about is not an
> accelerator.
> > In fact, it is slower than going directly. 
> (Except, as you note, when
> > someone is throttling port 119.)
> >
> > What you want to use is called "stunnel", for
> tunneling from one port to
> > another.  It will also handle the SSL used with
> NNTPS on port 563, since
> > PAN doesn't do the NNTPS directly.
> >
> > The best explanation I could find in one minute of
> Googling was at:
> >
>
http://www.usenet-forums.com/linux-general/74831-stunnel-ssl-nntp-server.html
>
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> 
> Another minute of Googling produced:
> 
> http://www.stunnel.org/faq/certs.html
> 
> Hope this helps
> Tom
> 
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