Re: NNTPS?

Dmitry Alexandrov <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.discuss
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Adam Sjøgren <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dmitry writes:
>
>> Is NNTP over TLS supposed to be functional here?
>
> It used to be on a separate host, snews.gmane,org, but I don't think
> that exists any more.

Thanks.  It’s pity.

> You can use STARTTLS on news.gmane.org, however:
>
>   $ gnutls-cli --starttls-proto=nntp news.gmane.org

Was quite surprised to found out, that this feature in gnutls-cli(1) is recent enough to not be available in the current stable Debian release:


> Gnus, at least, automatically uses STARTTLS.

It is present in libgnutls though.  And GNU Emacs, when built with it, indeed uses it transparently.  Unlike, alas, some other software.
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$ gnutls-cli --version
gnutls-cli 3.5.8
...
$ gnutls-cli --starttls-proto=nntp news.gmane.org
Processed 143 CA certificate(s).
Resolving 'news.gmane.org:nntp'...
Connecting to '195.159.176.226:119'...
unknown protocol 'nntp'
|<1>| Received record packet of unknown type 50
*** Fatal error: An unexpected TLS packet was received.
*** handshake has failed: An unexpected TLS packet was received.
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