Re: [Pan-users] How would I debug Pan (intermittently) sending posts in triplicate?

[Duncan]

Rock posted on Wed, 10 Jul 2013 07:03:14 +0000 as excerpted:

> On Tue, 09 Jul 2013 13:54:16 +0000, Duncan wrote:
> 
>> FWIW, I used ngrep here, when configuring pan for the new header
>> compression as well as the secure connections features, to verify that
>> it was working as intended.   (Obviously, ngrep won't yield much of use
>> from the content of the secure connection except for verifying that
>> it's no longer clear-text, so I set that up last, but the TCP packet
>> headers will still be in the clear, or the packets couldn't be routed.)
>>  Your pan is of course too old to have those features
> 
> FWIW, I do use Pan 0.135 (which is the latest available on Centos
> without actually compiling from source) with stunnel in order to post to
> free news servers which use port 563 SSL/TLS encryption, e.g.:
>  http://www.banana.mixmin.net/m2n.html Server = news.mixmin.net Port =
>  563 SSL/TLS (requires the stunnel ssl tunnel)
> 
> However, setting up stunnel on Centos is an exercise in and of itself,
> mainly because all the tutorials on the net for other operating systems
> simply do not apply - so - you're on your own (as with many RHEL6
> affairs).

Well, you'll be happy to note that pan itself supports encryption (plus 
as I mentioned, header aka overview file compression, but that's an 
unrelated feature, just that both turn some of the actual on-the-wire 
from clear-text to what appears to be gibberish, so with header 
compression ngrep can't see the actual nntp header or more accurately 
overview content, and with ssl, it can't see much of anything but 
gibberish beyond the tcp headers themselves) these days, so you have 
something to look forward to when you do have a chance to upgrade. No 
more having to do the stunnel dance! =:^)

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