Subj : BINKP over TLS
To   : Alan Ianson
From : Alexey Fayans
Date : Sun Dec 22 2019 04:37 am

Hello Alan!

On Sat, 21 Dec 2019 at 13:58 -0800, you wrote to me:

 AI>>> Ultimately I would like binkd to listen on port 24553 for
 AI>>> incoming polls over TLS, and I need a way to configure binkd to
 AI>>> poll supporting nodes over TLS where it is supported. That was
 AI>>> an easy sentence to write but may not be so easy to impliment.
 AF>> You cannot force everyone to use a single port. At some places
 AF>> that just cannot be done, i.e. when several nodes are sharing a
 AF>> single IP address.
 AI> I don't want to force anything. I simply want to listen on port 24553
 AI> for TLS capable sessions.

That is fine if you are going to only accept connection. But if we speaking 
about an protocol implementation, all aspects should be considered and though 
through.


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