On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 11:35:33PM -0500, John wrote: >"Andrew DeFaria" <and...@defaria.com> wrote in message >news:jllkeo$sjk$1...@dough.gmane.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?
I think you should stick to just describing what you're trying to do. You're trying to connect to gmane on port 563 using gnutls-cli. Adding telnet or telnet-like doesn't clarify anything. >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/ man cygcheck List the modules on your system and note the version number. cgf -- 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
