SSL connections to fedoraproject.org sites failing over IPv6

Wed Jun 8 02:03:25 UTC 2011

Once upon a time, Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net> said:
> $ wget 'https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-15&arch=x86_64'
> --2011-06-07 20:53:34--  https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-15&arch=x86_64
> Resolving mirrors.fedoraproject.org... 2610:28:3090:3001:dead:beef:cafe:fed4, 209.132.181.16, 66.35.62.166, ...
> Connecting to mirrors.fedoraproject.org|2610:28:3090:3001:dead:beef:cafe:fed4|:443... connected.
> OpenSSL: error:140770FC:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:unknown protocol
> Unable to establish SSL connection.

HTTP is "working", but not really:

$ wget -q -O- http://www.fedoraproject.org/
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN">
<html>
 <head>
  <title>Index of /</title>
 </head>
 <body>
<h1>Index of /</h1>
<pre>      <a href="?C=N;O=D">Name</a>                    <a href="?C=M;O=A">Last modified</a>      <a href="?C=S;O=A">Size</a>  <a href="?C=D;O=A">Description</a><hr><hr></pre>
<address>Apache/2.2.3 (Red Hat) Server at www.fedoraproject.org Port 80</address>
</body></html>

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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.