Subj : Newslink SSL error: Giganews
To   : All
From : Bob Roberts
Date : Wed Jun 23 2021 16:57:52

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?

Bob Roberts

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