[hobbit] bbtest error

[Henrik Stoerner]

On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 04:13:16PM -0600, Larry Barber wrote:
> That doesn't seem to apply here, the cert is from Verisign and I don't
> believe that it is chained. These are just intermittent failures that last
> from 1 round of testing to several minutes, then go away. The websites
> associated with the test also have problems when this error is reported, I
> don't think this is a Hobbit problem, I'm just trying to help with the
> trouble-shooting.

I've also seen this occasionally with https tests. The frustrating thing
is that OpenSSL reports an error, but doesn't provide any information
whatsoever about what the error is (that's the "error:0...." message).
But since it happens when calling SSL_connect, I suppose there is some 
sort of problem with the SSL handshake (this error happens *after*
Hobbit managed to connect at the network - TCP/IP - layer, so the
connection to the webserver has been established). It could be a lack of
entropy (randomness) on the Hobbit server so it cannot generate a
session key, but that is just a wild guess - and it doesnt really sound
like something that would happen.


Regards,
Henrik