Re: [Pan-users] Port 119 blocked - no newsgroup access!

[Duncan]

Maurice posted on Fri, 22 May 2015 15:20:11 +0000 as excerpted:

>> ... had you switched pan's gmane server config to secure,
> 
>   How does one do that?

Assuming your pan binary was built with secure-connections support (it's 
a build-time option that adds a dependency on the GnuTLS library, so some 
builders prefer to build without it)...

Edit > Edit News Servers > [select server, gmane in this case] > Edit > 
Security > TLS (SSL) settings > Use Secure SSL Connections.

That will change to secure connections, and switch the port to the 
default secure port (563).  If you wish to try some other port, simply 
change it after you've selected secure/plaintext, because toggling the 
latter /does/ switch the port selection to the appropriate default.

And one other thing... Some providers have a different server domain name 
for their secure connections, tho AFAIK that's less common with news 
providers as they tend to use the same domain name no matter what port 
you connect on, than with certain other protocols and servers.

So if the plain-text server is reached at nntp://news.sample.com:119, the 
secure server might be reached at nntps://snews.sample.com:563, or 
perhaps nntps://secure.news.sample.com:563.

But for gmane, based on my settings anyway, it's the same news.gmane.org 
either way, and only the port (along with subsequent protocol 
negotiation) tells gmane which one you want.

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