A Campbell wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:sipx-dev-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Krzeminski, Damian
> (BL60:9D30)
> Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 10:10 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [sipX-dev] XML/RPC and keystore
> 
> M. Ranganathan wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 11:31 PM, M. Ranganathan <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >> On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Damian Krzeminski
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>> I was chatting with Ranga on #sipx about it and somehow I got
> disconnected.
> >>>
> >>> Apparently because of some changes in how certificates are created
> we now
> >>> have to reload the keystore and it does not seem trivial.
> >>>
> >>> One of the options of solving that (not sure if that would work
but
> hey -
> >>> anything is better than restarting).
> >>>
> >>> sipXconfig is using Apache XmlRpc to use xml/rpc. This library
lets
> you
> >>> choose one of the 3 transports for XmlRpc. Default one - the one
> that we
> >>> are using is based on standard java.net.URLConnection
> >>>
> >>> However we always have an option to switch to the one based on
> Apache
> >>> commons HttpClient library (we already use it for something else).
> >>> (sipXconfig creates XmlRpcClient in
> >>> XmlRpcClientInterceptor.afterPropertiesSet this is the place where
> the
> >>> transport factory would have to be passed)
> >>>
> >>> If we were to switch we could probably use
> AuthSSLProtocolSocketFactory and
> >>> register it with Protocol.registerProtocol("https", authhttps);
> >>>
> >>>
>
http://www.jdocs.com/httpclient/3.0.1/org/apache/commons/httpclient/con
> trib/ssl/AuthSSLProtocolSocketFactory.html
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Maybe we could try to reregister protocol when we need to re-read
> the keystore.
> >>>
> >>> Damian
> >> Thats a possibility.
> >>
> >> I wonder how this ever worked.  Another thing that ought to work is
> to
> >> use the same key/certificate pair for all hosts in the cluster for
> xml
> >> rpc.
> >>
> >> I do not see any way of dynamically updating the trust store used
by
> a
> >> running jvm - especially because one does not have access to the
> trust
> >> store instance that is being used for xml rcp.
> >>
> >>  Is there a specific need for each host to have its own key /
> >> certificate ? If all hosts can use the same key then we have only
> one
> >> key/certificate pair. This will greatly simplify things. I think
> this
> >> is how the 3.10 version used to work. NOTE : I added update of the
> >> java keystore to gen-ssl-keys ( as requested by Scott ). This code
> >> never existed in 3.10. Consequently the same key was being used
> >
> > That should read "Consequently I *believe*  the same key pair was
> > being used across the cluster for XML RPC".
> >
> > In other words, gen-ssl-keys never did update the JVM trust store
> > prior to this change. There was no code to do that import into the
> > truststore.jks file in other words.  The startup script
> > "javacertsetup.sh" (and prior to that the code in sipxconfig.sh in a
> > previous iteration of this never ending re factoring)  used to check
> > if the cert existed and update the trust store prior to starting the
> > jvm.
> >
> >
> >> everywhere. Why cant we go back to that scheme?
> >>
> >
> >
> > Is this a significant usability hit to have to restart sipxconfig on
> > Master when you add a new node, given the rarity of that event ?
> >
> 
> It's a disappointing news: we spent quite a lot of time making sure
> that
> adding a new secondary server would be as seamless as possible.

Agree with you Damian I don't see where restarting sipXconfig should
hold us back. I am assuming when you add a server the admin would get a
notification to restart sipXconfig?

> 
> That said - at this point people are probably sick and tired waiting
> for a
> stable 4.0 builds.
> 
> There is a ton of a new functionality there: most of it well tested
and
> ready to be used. I want to go through remaining 30-ish issues on
> sipXconfig list so that we are ready to make a stable branch and I do
> not
> have time to look into the cert problems at the moment.
> 
> So I propose that we just go with what we have and try to improve upon
> is
> as soon as it's practical.
> 
> > Note : You have that same problem when you install a web key.
> > sipxconfig needs to be restarted here too. We need to add some code
> > there to accomplish that.
> >
> 
> That's a bit different: if I change a cert for the server. It's kind
of
> natural that I have to restart the server. When I add a new peer I be
> surprised I still have to restart a server.
> D.
> 
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