X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: telnet to newsgroup Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2012 19:29:42 -0700 Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120327 Thunderbird/11.0.1 In-Reply-To: X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On 4/5/2012 4:40 PM, John wrote: > Okay, I substituted 563 for nntps in the command like this: > > gnutls-cli --insecure -p 563 news.gmane.org | grep 200 > > And it now works correctly. Exactly the same response from his linux system > was returned in my cygwin environment: > > 200 news.gmane.org InterNetNews NNRP server INN 2.5.1 ready (posting ok) Good. > Am I understanding that this is an encrypted Telnet connection to gmane's news server? Is the reason for the option "--insecure" needed because this is not an authenticated logon? Thanks. It's not a telnet connection. You're not using telnet! You're using gnutls-cli, which is not telnet. As for what gnutls-cli's --insecure option means you should consult it's man page. I don't have gnutls-cli installed but this (http://linux.die.net/man/1/gnutls-cli) says: --insecure Don't abort program if server certificates can't be validated. -- Andrew DeFaria Disk Full - Press F1 to belch. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple