[21067] in Athena Bugs
Re: 9.1.16: mozilla
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nickolai Zeldovich)
Wed Nov 13 18:39:56 2002
Message-Id: <200211132339.SAA15650@contents-vnder-pressvre.mit.edu>
To: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
cc: aatharuv@MIT.EDU, bugs@MIT.EDU, usenet@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 13 Nov 2002 16:29:38 EST."
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Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 18:39:53 -0500
From: Nickolai Zeldovich <kolya@MIT.EDU>
On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU> wrote:
> So right now, yes, if you create a news account, it will default to
> talking using SSL/port 563, which news.mit.edu does not respond to.
FWIW, the current news server software on news.mit.edu doesn't support
SSL connections in any way. I'll consider adding SSL support in some
way when we upgrade the news server (which we've been trying to do for
some time now), but it might be a while until that's done.
-- kolya
