ietf-nntp TLS response codes

[Russ Allbery]

Ken Murchison <ken at oceana.com> writes:

> The messaging protocols seem to leave it up to the client/server
> implementation.  A failure in the negotiation would seem to fall under
> the "policy check" umbrella (RFC 2595 section 2.5, RFC 3207 sections 4.1
> & 6).

Yeah, but does the server return an error message?  I think we're trying
to figure out if there's a reason to have the server send a 580 error
message *after* the TLS negotiation if something failed, or if that's all
handled at the TLS level and already covered by the existing language.

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>