Re: NNTPS pointers

On 10/19/21 3:45 PM, Julien ÉLIE wrote:
> Hi Grant,

Hi,

> Do you know news servers implementing TLS for transit?

I can't produce a name here and now.  But I know that I've seen TLS 
referenced when discussing configurations with peers in the past.

I'd like to start offering NNTPS (433) support on my servers.

> If that's the case, as nnrpd has TLS support and implements IHAVE, maybe 
> you could try to start 2 instances of nnrpd (one listening to port 563 
> for readers, and another to port 433 for instance).  Remote news servers 
> may send you articles to port 433 using TLS and IHAVE.
> I believe it would work.  Yet, not as fast as innd would, though.

Hum.  That sounds sub-optimal.  But it might be better than nothing.

> And innfeed does not implement TLS either...

:-(

I think I'll explore options round stunnel et al. and tricks to allow 
the local daemon to see the real remote IP.

Thank you for your input Julien.



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Grant. . . .
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