Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 15:34:09 +0300 From: Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org, gnome@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: xchat vs freenode Message-ID: <232965a8-bdeb-b814-bb60-270d7f9ec1d5@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4d36f000-3772-f54a-bbb6-b2e5ddf542c4@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <d5010ed3-f24b-a8ee-b33d-1a169ae28866@FreeBSD.org> <4d36f000-3772-f54a-bbb6-b2e5ddf542c4@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On 20/04/2016 14:49, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 04/20/16 12:15, Andriy Gapon wrote: >> >> It seems that most of FreeNode servers now reject SSLv3. >> They simply reset a TCP connection after Client Hello message with that >> protocol. xchat appears to be hardcoded to use SSLv3, so it now has a trouble >> connecting to the FreeNode servers with SSL enabled. >> >> Here are some bug reports describing the problem for Linux distributions: >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xchat-gnome/+bug/1381484 >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1091544 >> >> This patch seems to fix the issue for me: >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=889894&action=diff >> > > Bernard Spil has a whole raft of patches for these sort of bugs > available from https://wiki.freebsd.org/OpenSSL/No-SSLv3 > > I've been using his patch to irc/xchat happily for several months. That's a very good job and a resource. Thank you and Bernard. I hope that xchat's collective maintainer will include the patch into the port. -- Andriy Gapon
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