On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 17:37 -0400, Richard Matthew McCutchen wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 17:03 -0400, Richard Matthew McCutchen wrote:
> > On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 16:10 -0400, Eric Sturdivant wrote:
> > > On Fri, 30 Apr 2010, Richard Matthew McCutchen wrote:
> > > > On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 13:11 -0400, Daniel Lenski wrote:
> > > >> If I try ldaps://directory.umd.edu, I get an error about being unable 
> > > >> to
> > > >> contact the server.
> > > >
> > > > Indeed, the SSL interface seems to be broken.  The server closes the
> > > > connection without sending any data:
> > > 
> > > Odd, it's working for me: (and alot of things would be broken if it 
> > > wasn't 
> > > working):
> > [...]
> > > z.glue.umd.edu -> directory.umd.edu TCP D=636 S=39185 Syn Seq=2539659181 
> > > Len=0 Win=49640 Options=<mss 1460,nop,wscale 0,nop,nop,sackOK>
> > 
> > I tried from glue and it works.  Likewise from birdy.cs.umd.edu .
> > However, it doesn't work from my computer on the wireless network, or
> > using the UMD-Wireless VPN.  Is there a firewall or something?  The SSL
> > interface has worked from my computer in the past.
> 
> I spoke to John Pfeifer about this and we figured out what the problem
> is.  The server is throwing up because I have a new version of OpenSSL
> that advertises RFC 5746 support via the renegotiation_info extension.
> SSL servers are supposed to ignore extensions they don't understand.

I was mistaken.  OpenSSL uses the SCSV, not the extension.  There must
be some other SSL compatibility problem, since NSS is able to complete
the handshake successfully.  I will do some more tests and post my
findings.

-- 
Matt

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