"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? 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