[ctw] Re: Timeouts after enabling TLS

  • From: Cory Rau <cory@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: ctw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 07:06:10 -0400


On Mar 31, 2009, at 2:15 PM, Tom Shaw wrote:

At 7:06 PM -0400 3/30/09, Cory Rau wrote:
Since I enabled TLS and confirmed that it seemed to be working nicely, I've noted that there are a large number of "connection timed out after 180 seconds" type errors in the ASSP logs. I'm using the self-signed certs included with ASSP. Could this be the problem? My intention was to get a legit cert from godaddy or somewhere. I first noticed this because one of our subsidiaries using Exchange and a godaddy cert was having intermittent difficulty sending to the parent company. As I looked deeper, it looks as though we've been timing out to a number of servers that I know are legit.


Cory

This can only happen if the per strictly checks your certs. Some do; some don't. Try a self signed one for your host or purchase one.

Tom


Well, seems I may have FUBARed the SSL setup. I installed a self- signed cert and I get this in the logs:

Apr-1-09 06:59:31 10.100.0.11 <> client on port 25 issued STARTTLS - converting to SSL

...but nothing in the headers of the e-mail indicates that TLS was used. This is a departure from when I was getting those timeouts. Switching back to the ASSP-supplied certs yields the same result.

In the interim, I'd installed IO::Socket::SSL 1.24 but I'm not sure if that's related or not. Hmmm...back to the drawing board, I suppose. Unfortunately, I don't know where to look as I don't see any errors in the transaction.

Cory
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