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  • Posting article failed. Socket error # 0

    From rocco portelli@21:1/5 to All on Wed Nov 29 06:55:38 2023
    XPost: alt.free.newsservers, news.software.readers

    Before I bother the admin of a common free news server (who I promised if
    he gave me a posting account, I wouldn't be any trouble) I would like to
    figure out if the problem is his encrypted news server or if it's in mine.

    It used to work but stopped working about a week ago with this "socket
    error" of "Posting article failed. Socket error # 0".

    I use 40TudeDialog with stunnel on Windows but I don't know what a "socket"
    is nor if it's even related to stunnel or to the news server.

    Stunnel has been running for years with other news servers and for months
    with this news server (which I can't say what it is as it's not known to be available for posting unless you ask the news server admin to allow it).

    How do I debug on my own?
    What are the typical debug steps for testing an encrypted connection?

    Thinking something might have used the port, I changed the port in both
    40Tude Dialog and in the stunnel.conf file, but that arbitrary port change
    made no difference (127.0.0.1:12345 => 127.0.0.1:54321) in the error.

    [newsserver]
    client = yes
    accept = 127.0.0.1:54321
    connect = news.newsserver.net:563
    verify = 0
    verifyChain = yes
    CAfile = ca-certs.pem
    checkHost = news.newsserver.net
    OCSPaia = yes

    How do I debug this error to see at least if the problem is me or him?

    What's a "posting article failed socket error # 0" in 40tude dialog anyway?

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  • From Marco Moock@21:1/5 to All on Wed Nov 29 15:00:57 2023
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    Am 29.11.2023 um 06:55:38 Uhr schrieb rocco portelli:

    What are the typical debug steps for testing an encrypted connection?

    ncat --ssl news.example.org 563

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  • From ferd@21:1/5 to rocco portelli on Sun Dec 3 19:54:08 2023
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    rocco portelli <[email protected]> wrote in news:uk78rq$3gr0h$[email protected]:

    Before I bother the admin of a common free news server (who I promised
    if he gave me a posting account, I wouldn't be any trouble) I would
    like to figure out if the problem is his encrypted news server or if
    it's in mine.

    It used to work but stopped working about a week ago with this "socket
    error" of "Posting article failed. Socket error # 0".

    A connection already open failed.

    Probably your provider unless you've picked up some malware.

    Snag a copy of openSSL. Grab the 64 bit version.

    https://indy.fulgan.com/SSL/openssl-1.0.2t-x64_86-win64.zip

    openssl-1.0.2t-x64_86-win64>openssl s_client -connect news.eternal- september.org:563
    200 news.eternal-september.org InterNetNews NNRP server INN 2.8.0
    (20230917 snapshot) ready (posting ok)

    Check and compare your server to those below.

    openssl-1.0.2t-x64_86-win64>openssl s_client -connect news.neodome.net:563 openssl-1.0.2t-x64_86-win64>openssl s_client -connect news.blueworldhosting.com:563

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