Re: [Pan-users] Re: Feature request: add port to servers, label servers for use with localhost

[Phil]

--- Jack Cuyler <address@hidden> wrote:
<snip>
> 
> As a workaround for your issue, you could use
> aliases to your /etc/hosts 
> and then use those aliases rather than an IP or
> "localhost" in pan.  For 
> example, say that you are using 3 news servers,
> new.gigaserver.com, 
> news.servernews.com and news.easynntp.com, each with
> it's own tunnel.  
> 
> In /etc/hosts, add names for each on the 127.0.0.1
> line (all one line):
> 
> 127.0.0.1   localhost.localdomain localhost
> gigaserver servernews easynntp
> 
> 
> Set up your tunnels as usual.  Then in pan, specify
> each server by the 
> new name and tunneled port.  Each will still resolve
> to 127.0.0.1, but it 
> will be easier for you to distinguish which is
> which.
> 

Thanks very much Jack.   Do you think though servers
will be given user-defined labels again in a (near)
future Pan release?  Surely makes sense?

Meanwhile I will give the workaround a try, thanks.

Also: I guess I'm not the only one to say it, but
expanding Pan to post binary attachments might be nice
too.  Seems to be a big disadvantage vis a vis XNews
etc etc.  Other than these things, I like Pan very much.


      
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