Andrew Mahan | 2 Jun 2004 02:18
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NT Server?

Does anyone know of a good NT gopher server?

I am currently trying to run "Gophers" v0.5 on W2k Server.  Since I am
behind a firewall my machine has a NATed ip address (192.x.x.x).  When I try
to connect from offsite, I can view the selectors but clicking on them tries
to access the resource via the private ip address.  Needless to say, this
doesn't work.  Any ideas?

Thanks,

~Andrew

Cameron Kaiser | 2 Jun 2004 11:19
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Re: NT Server?

> I am currently trying to run "Gophers" v0.5 on W2k Server.  Since I am
> behind a firewall my machine has a NATed ip address (192.x.x.x).  When I try
> to connect from offsite, I can view the selectors but clicking on them tries
> to access the resource via the private ip address.  Needless to say, this
> doesn't work.  Any ideas?

This is likely going to be a problem for almost any gopher server in this
situation, alas. If you have access to the source, a kludgey but workable
solution is just to hardcode the proper address in it, if your box has an
externally accessible IP.

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Andrew Mahan | 2 Jun 2004 11:29
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Re: NT Server?

So basically I am hardcoding each selector to point to the public ip on my
router, and forwarding tcp port 70 to my server?

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Subject: [gopher] Re: NT Server?

> I am currently trying to run "Gophers" v0.5 on W2k Server.  Since I am
> behind a firewall my machine has a NATed ip address (192.x.x.x).  When I
try
> to connect from offsite, I can view the selectors but clicking on them
tries
> to access the resource via the private ip address.  Needless to say, this
> doesn't work.  Any ideas?

This is likely going to be a problem for almost any gopher server in this
situation, alas. If you have access to the source, a kludgey but workable
solution is just to hardcode the proper address in it, if your box has an
externally accessible IP.

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John Goerzen | 2 Jun 2004 15:52
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Re: NT Server?

On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 02:19:41AM -0700, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
> > I am currently trying to run "Gophers" v0.5 on W2k Server.  Since I am
> > behind a firewall my machine has a NATed ip address (192.x.x.x).  When I try
> > to connect from offsite, I can view the selectors but clicking on them tries
> > to access the resource via the private ip address.  Needless to say, this
> > doesn't work.  Any ideas?
> 
> This is likely going to be a problem for almost any gopher server in this
> situation, alas. If you have access to the source, a kludgey but workable
> solution is just to hardcode the proper address in it, if your box has an
> externally accessible IP.

In Pygopherd, you could set the servername field in the control file,
which should take care of it for you.

I believe UMN gopherd has a smiilar setting.

-- John

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Cameron Kaiser | 2 Jun 2004 18:32
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Re: NT Server?

> > This is likely going to be a problem for almost any gopher server in this
> > situation, alas. If you have access to the source, a kludgey but workable
> > solution is just to hardcode the proper address in it, if your box has an
> > externally accessible IP.

> So basically I am hardcoding each selector to point to the public ip on my
> router, and forwarding tcp port 70 to my server?

That's the way I'd do it, yes.

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Andrew Mahan | 2 Jun 2004 19:15
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Re: NT Server?

More questions!......

Another problem I'm having is getting hgopher windows client to properly
open any image files.  I tried setting viewer to IE, Image Viewer, etc...it
opens program but not the  image.  Anyone know how to fix this or know of a
better windows client?

-----Original Message-----
From: gopher-bounce@...
[mailto:gopher-bounce@...] On
Behalf Of Cameron Kaiser
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 9:33 AM
To: gopher@...
Subject: [gopher] Re: NT Server?

> > This is likely going to be a problem for almost any gopher server in
this
> > situation, alas. If you have access to the source, a kludgey but
workable
> > solution is just to hardcode the proper address in it, if your box has
an
> > externally accessible IP.

> So basically I am hardcoding each selector to point to the public ip on my
> router, and forwarding tcp port 70 to my server?

That's the way I'd do it, yes.

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Cameron Kaiser | 7 Jun 2004 10:51
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new V-2 search enhancements

Some subterfuge has been completed in the keyword processing logic for
Veronica-2 that should moderatively improve search speed by computing more
effective search strategies. Please report weirdness to me promptly.
*tips hat*

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Cameron Kaiser | 7 Jun 2004 10:58
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Re: new V-2 search enhancements

> Some subterfuge has been completed in the keyword processing logic for
> Veronica-2 that should moderatively improve search speed by computing more

... moderately, even. At least *hacking* doesn't suffer at 1:44am, hopefully.

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