On Wed, Jun 5, 2019 at 9:36 AM William A Rowe Jr <wr...@rowe-clan.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 11:08 PM Geoff Russell <geoffrey.russ...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi Douglas, >> >> Thanks for your help. I've spent about 6 hours on this problem and it >> has just vanished ... >> >> I tried elinks as a substitute for telnet ... telnet does succeed in the >> socket handshake, to is useful for quick test of that part of the >> connection. >> > > Just for future reference, openssl s_client is the usual way to test the > connection stack to the server, which gives you the options to force > specific versions of tls, specific ciphers, etc. > Thanks for the tip. After about 6 hours of investigation ... the problem has vanished as mysteriously as it arrived. I cleaned up some irrelevant router port forwarding entries and everything started working. Cheers, Geoff
