stunnel and NNTP

I am trying to connect to my school's usenet server, which uses SSL. I
use Pan as my newsreader in X. Slrn works fine in text mode, but I would
like to be able to use Pan.

I have added the following to /etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf

[NNTP]
protocol = nntp
transparent = yes
accept = 127.0.0.1:119
connect = news.gatech.edu:119

and run

stunnel /etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf

I have pan configured to connect to 127.0.0.1:119 , but when I try to
download headers it tells me that it could not connect to 127.0.0.1:119

Here is the wh*ole thing:

NNTP handshake failed: Error reading from socket.

Connect Failure

Connection to 127.0.0.1, port 119 failed: Connection refused

Error: reading from socket returned -1. Bad file descriptor

socket [0x91c8a90] failed its read: Bad file descriptor

NNTP handshake failed: Error reading from socket.

Handshake failed: Error reading from socket.

NNTP handshake failed: Error reading from socket.

Connect Failure

Thanks for any help

Luke Albers wrote:
>
> I am trying to connect to my school's usenet server, which uses SSL. I
> use Pan as my newsreader in X. Slrn works fine in text mode, but I would
> like to be able to use Pan.
>
> I have added the following to /etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf
>
> [NNTP]
> protocol = nntp
> transparent = yes
> accept = 127.0.0.1:119
> connect = news.gatech.edu:119
^^^

Usually NNTP over SSL does'nt use the 119 but the 563 port. From the
/etc/services file:

nntp 119/tcp readnews untp # USENET News Transfer Protocol
nntp 119/udp readnews untp # USENET News Transfer Protocol
nntps 563/tcp # NNTP over SSL
nntps 563/udp # NNTP over SSL


Also make sure that you're running stunnel in client mode.

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Regards,

Carles Arjona (E-Mail Removed) ( nospammer IS my real username ).