Heads up about a Gemini client @ 198.12.83.123

[Michael Lazar]

On Sun, Nov 29, 2020 at 4:15 PM <colecmac at protonmail.com> wrote:
>
> (Resent to the list, not just spc)
>
> > 198.12.83.123
>
> ➤ dig -x 198.12.83.123 +short
> phlox.titmouse.org.
>
> https://phlox.titmouse.org/about.html mentions a Discordian by
> the name of "Benedict T. Eyen, the T stands for Teeth." Unfortunately
> there's no email address, so we can't contact him. Curiously, there
> is a Gemini server running on that domain, but accessing it just gives
> me Proxy Request Refused.
>
> makeworld

I'm not trying to call anyone out, but since this situation has come up on the
mailing list a few times it's helpful to look at the TLS cert.

```
openssl s_client -connect 198.12.83.123:1965
CONNECTED(00000003)
depth=2 O = Digital Signature Trust Co., CN = DST Root CA X3
verify return:1
depth=1 C = US, O = Let's Encrypt, CN = Let's Encrypt Authority X3
verify return:1
depth=0 CN = lignumvitae.org
verify return:1
---
Certificate chain
 0 s:/CN=lignumvitae.org
   i:/C=US/O=Let's Encrypt/CN=Let's Encrypt Authority X3
 1 s:/C=US/O=Let's Encrypt/CN=Let's Encrypt Authority X3
   i:/O=Digital Signature Trust Co./CN=DST Root CA X3
```

gemini://lignumvitae.org/ returns the same proxy error, but they're using a
Let's Encrypt cert so presumably they have a HTTPS server running too.

https://lignumvitae.org/ redirects to https://gj.libraryoferis.org/

from there, I recognized library of eris as an one of the early (and totally
awesome) gemini servers so I tried

gemini://libraryoferis.org/

There's an email address listed on that capsule.

- Michael