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telnet to newsgroup


Hello. I read on another list about how one (presumably) Linux user connects
to newsgroups using one of two different methods on the command line. If I
am not mistaken, both use telnet.  The two different commands he used to
illustrate them are these:

You can use STARTTLS on the nntp port (119):

  $ echo -e 'HELP\nQUIT\n' | nc news.gmane.org nntp | grep TLS
    STARTTLS
  $

or you can connect to the nntps port (563):

  $ gnutls-cli --insecure -p nntps news.gmane.org | grep 200
  200 news.gmane.org InterNetNews NNRP server INN 2.5.1 ready (posting ok)
  QUIT
  $


The second of these is using a program called "gnutls-cli", which is that is
available to cygwin. I have cygwin on my system and I tied using the command
at the Windows command prompt exactly like this:

gnutls-cli --insecure -p nntps news.gmane.org | grep 200

It did not work but I got an error back:

 "Cannot resolve news.gmane.org:nntps: servname not supported
for the ai_socktype."

What am I missing in order to make this work?  Thanks.





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