[Pkg-gnutls-maint] Bug#466477: downgrade this bug?

[Simon Josefsson]

Richard A Nelson <cowboy at debian.org> writes:

>>> $ gnutls-cli -p 636 bluepages.ibm.com
>>> Resolving 'bluepages.ibm.com'...
>>> Connecting to '9.17.186.253:636'...
>>> *** Fatal error: A TLS packet with unexpected length was received.
>>> *** Handshake has failed
>>> GNUTLS ERROR: A TLS packet with unexpected length was received.
>>
>> Could you run this with -d 4711 and post the output?
>
> Sure...  Looks like the server is impolite, and just hangs up
> on us -- possibly due to the extensions being used (and not supported)

Yes, it is a hard disconnect, it doesn't even respond to the client
hello, which is quite nasty.  Could you try adding --disable-extensions
to see if that works?

Did this bug start to appear with more recent gnutls versions?  Or have
you always seen it with this server, regardless of gnutls version?

/Simon