[hobbit] bbtest error

[Larry Barber]

I don't think it has anything to do with Hobbit or the Hobbit server, as the
website goes down when we see this error as well.

Thanks,
Larry Barber

On 11/20/06, Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:
>
> 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
>
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