Hi, I have a little question regarding tunneling through ssh. Basically, I can connect to news.verizon.net from my home connection, but will not let me from other networks. I'll like to be able to connect from my laptop while elsewhere. From what I've searched and have in my head, I've tried tunneling using this from my laptop:

$sudo ssh -NL 119:news.verizon.net:119 nate@my.home.linux
(I'm using super user because it's a privileged port)

This seems like what everyone is suggesting, so am I configuring my news reader incorrectly? Should I be trying to connect to localhost:119 or news.verizon.net:119? Tcpdump doesn't show any NNTP traffic at my home box, and lsof -i shows that my news reader is trying to connect but isn't being acknowledged.

I'm probably doing some thing stupid, so any answer here would be appreciated. Thanks.

Bah, nevermind. I have it figured out now.

$ ssh -NL 7890:news.verizon.net:119 nate@my.home.linux #I didn't want to run it as root

After that, ssh was listening on localhost:7890. pointed pan there, and I got it working. Woot!