Subj : Newslink SSL error: Giganews
To   : Bob Roberts
From : Digital Man
Date : Thu Jun 24 2021 17:41:15

  Re: Newslink SSL error: Giganews
  By: Bob Roberts to All on Wed Jun 23 2021 04:57 pm

 > I'm trying to setup news.giganews.com as my usenet feed for Newslink.
 > However when I try to connect via SSL on any of their SSL ports, I get the
 > following error:
 >
 > Connecting to news.giganews.com port 443 ...
 > Connected
 > Negotiating TLS
 > TLS WARNING 'Server provided a broken/invalid certificate, try again with a
 > reduced level of certificate compliance checking' (-32) setting attribute
 > 6001 0007 TLS WARNING 'Server provided a broken/invalid certificate, try
 > again with a reduced level of certificate compliance checking' (-32) setting
 > session active
 > Authenticating...
 > !Authentication FAILURE: null
 >
 > Newslink works great over SSL with astraweb, however astraweb is stingy with
 > granting posting permissions, so I'm trying to hook up a provider that
 > allows posting.
 >
 > Is anyone able to connect to news.giganews.com via SSL and tell me what
 > might be wrong with their SSL handshake?

Did you setup LetSyncrypt successfully? If not, you'll be using a "self-signed" certificate which giganews likely doesn't like. Either:

1. Setup/use LetSyncrypt, or
2. Don't use NNTPS (use plain NNTP instead)

Additionally, Vertrauen posts NNTP messages to astraweb using NewsLink, no problem. <shrug>
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