Argh! (Adelphia, E-mail, iptables, etc.)

[Tom Buskey]

bscott at ntisys.com wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, at 4:16pm, chrisra at concentric.net wrote:
> 
>>I would personally use ssh to do that kind of redirection
>>On machine a ssh -g -L 25:3.4.5.6:otherport 3.4.5.6
> 
> 
>   It seems to me that would add needless overhead.  You're already talking
> about a public data stream (SMTP), so why bother spending the CPU cycles to
> encrypt it for the last few steps?
> 

-g makes it available to outside hosts.

If you don't care about encryption, use netcat.