Re: [Noffle-devel] stunnel

[Jim H. <jim...@ac...>]

On 19-Mar-2003 Simon Bell wrote:
> Ive been trying to set up noffle to use stunnel to accept connections on
> port 563.
>  
> Noffle works fine running without stunnel on port 119.

I've got Noffle set up this way on one of my machines. I'm still using
old inetd, so I can't help on xinetd configuration details. I'm using stunnel
3.22.

Here's the relevant line in my inetd.conf:

nntps stream tcp nowait root    /usr/sbin/stunnel stunnel -r localhost:nntp

That being said, I am little puzzled by your configuration:

> service nntp

Is that a typo? I assume it is, 'cos you say Noffle on 119 is working normally.
I presume you mean nntps.

I'm also a little puzzled by these:

>         server          = /usr/sbin/stunnel
>         server_args     = -d nntps -l /usr/local/bin/noffle -- noffle

Your stunnel.conf would seem to imply that you're asking stunnel to connect
incoming nntps connections to 119. In which case xinetd will start noffle as
normal, because it will see an incoming connection on 119 (from stunnel). So I
think your server_args need to be different; in fact, looking at the stunnel 4
man page (there is no stunnel.conf in stunnel 3), it looks like you don't need
arguments at all. So try with 'server = /usr/sbin/stunnel' and no server_args
line.

What I suggest is you first make sure Noffle is working properly on 119. Can
you read news via a normal NNTP connection? If you can, then try the nntps
configuration. If it doesn't work, then asking on the stunnel lists for help is
the thing to do; the problem will be one of stunnel config.

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