Re: NNTPS?

Colin Baxter <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.discuss
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Dear Dmitry,
>>>>> Dmitry Alexandrov <[email protected]> writes:

    > 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:

    > $ 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.


That's odd. I have an earlier gnutls-cli (version 3.3.30) on Debian
3.16.59-1 and 'gnutls-cli --starttls-proto=nntp news.gmane.org <RET>'
gives no error for me.

Best wishes,

-- 
Colin Baxter
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