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Hey,

This is my configuration:
Version: SABnzbd+ 0.4.12
OS: OSX Snow Leopard
Install-type: SABnzbd+ .app
Skin (if applicable): Default
Firewall Software: None
Are you using IPV6? think no
Is the issue reproducible? yes

so basically i'm on a school network, and i browse through a ssh tunnel, to avoid all the blocked sites. I then figured out how to use bittorrent trough that ssh tunnel, but torrents are slow as f*. So i got myself an account on giganews. I first tried to download Hellanzb, but that I couldn't get to work, and then I saw someone's comment on some install page, which suggested SABnzbd+. So i downloaded that, and succesfully installed it. Now I need to know if I configured it right, since I get these errors continously, and nothing will download:
2009-11-05 14:37:30,248 ERROR [newswrapper] Failed to connect: (60, 'Operation timed out') [email protected]:119

-what is this error about? how do i fix this?
-in the general config, for the host i put in localhost, for the port do i put in 8080(i have my firefox go through this port to access the tunnel, does this have to do with anything)? or 38451(which i opened in the ssh tunnel for bittorrent)
- in the server config, do i use port 119? (or maybe again 8080 or 38451?)

remember, this is all when my tunnel is opened through openssh (in terminal)


thanks alot in advance, would be awsome if i could get this to work!

Where does the tunnel end?
Can you do a simple telnet to giganews through the tunnel? You should see a Giganews sign-on mesage.

i did telnet, enter then telnet news-europe.giganews.com 119, enter
this came up
Trying 216.196.109.144...
telnet: connect to address 216.196.109.144: Operation timed out
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host

oh en ik ben een nederlander btw, dus antwoorden in nederlands mag ook indien gewenst

This means that your tunnel doesn't work.
If telnet cannot reach giganews, neither can SABnzbd.
I'm not sure what you are trying to setup.
An ssh tunnel starting from your system must end on another system
and that system will make the connection to the actual Usenet server.
You cannot just tunnel into Internet.

If you are trying to use secure NTP, you should set that up in the server definitions.
But that isn't tunneling.

BTW: This is the English language section, there is a seperate Dutch board.

Ok but that is quite weird, since I browse with firefox through the tunnel, and i can use Bittorrent.
My tunnel (from my computer) connects to a server in a serverfarm, which is connected to the internet.
For my tunnel i use for bittorrent: "ssh -2 -R 38451:localhost:38451 -A -D 8080 [email protected]" and if i don't use BT, i just use "ssh -D 8080 [email protected]". maybe this helps in explaining what my tunnel looks like.
In the SABnzbd+ general config i have put in localhost and 8080, which should thus connect through my tunnel no?
If I can't get it set up through the tunnel, what should I put the ports to?

Sorry for my annoying questions, I'm not completely well known with the whole using of ports thing.

BTW: what i said was that if there's dutch people who know the answer, but can't explain in english, they can tell me in dutch

Thanks again,

You can still use telnet to test.
telnet localhost 8080

As soon as you get it working with telnet, you can use that address in SABnzbd.

Can you explain to me how the server farm knows it needs
to connect your 8080 port to the 119 port of giganews?
My guess is that 8080 routes to a proxy on your serverfarm, which is OK for Firefox.
SABnzbd doesn't support proxies, so you have to create a special
route for the NNTP traffic.