X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=3.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,SPF_HELO_PASS,TO_NO_BRKTS_MSFT,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: "John" Subject: Re: telnet to newsgroup Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2012 23:35:33 -0500 Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com "Andrew DeFaria" wrote in message news:jllkeo$sjk$1 AT dough DOT gmane DOT org... > 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. Fair enough, I like clarity too. More precisely I could say that it is a secure form of telnet-like communication, similar to OpenSSL or Putty, perhaps. What do you think? How could I determine whether the cygwin version of it is making use of the latest version of GnuTLS, as shown here: https://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/ Thanks for the link to the manual. I saw that earlier, but it is quite short and does not much explain the program thoroughly. I do appreciate the assistance anyway. Take care. -- 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