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MeatPopsicle
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Untrusted Certificate

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I have been out of town for a few days and when I came back and checked my server, I was missing a bunch of show episodes. When I checked SAB, I had two pages of:

2017-01-25 13:58:29,408::INFO::[newswrapper:290] Failed to connect: Server news.supernews.com uses an untrusted certificate [[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:661)] 29@news.supernews.com:563

Nothing has changed and I have been using the same servers for the past two years. The only way I have been able to resume my downloads is by disabling the certificate verification.
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Re: Untrusted Certificate

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On https://www.appelboor.com/newsservers/n ... h-SSL.html you'l see news.supernews.com is ... TRUSTED.
My own SABnzbd also trusted supernews.

So the problem is on your side (or in the middle: your ISP). On what operating system (and hardware if NAS) is your SABnzbd running?
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Re: Untrusted Certificate

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Windows Server 2012 R2. Os is on it's own drive with all the apps (SAB, SB etc.) and the storage is on a 16TB raid 6 behind an adaptec 3805.
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Re: Untrusted Certificate

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MeatPopsicle wrote:Windows Server 2012 R2. Os is on it's own drive with all the apps (SAB, SB etc.) and the storage is on a 16TB raid 6 behind an adaptec 3805.
Would you like to analyse it (which will take time), or are you OK with the non-checking?

Analysis could involve:
* does it still happen?
* does it happen on another system in your house running SABnzbd (Windows PC, or ...)
* what brand is the Windows Server hardware? Lenovo, ... ?
* what virusscanner , firewall and other security software is installed on the Windows Server
* what if you run wget on the Windows Server like this "wget https://news.supernews.com:563/" ?
* what if you run curl on the Windows Server like this "curl https://news.supernews.com:563/" ?
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Re: Untruster Certificate

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I have done a little more testing.

I installed SAB on my pc, went through the wizard and used the test connection button and news.supernews.com worked.

With that in mind I started testing on my server.

I am using news.supernews.com, news.eu.supernews.com, ssl-us.astraweb.com and ssl-eu.astraweb.com as priority 0-4 respectively. All of them are giving the untrusted certificate error.

Is there a cache or something that I can clear? Maybe something got corrupted?
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Re: Untruster Certificate

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You have now answered my question 1
.
Now answer question 2 - 6 .. :-)
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Re: Untruster Certificate

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Actually, that was 1 and 2. =D

what brand is the Windows Server hardware? Lenovo, ... ? - Custom build Intel Xenon proc, Supermicro mobo, Crucial ECC RAM, pretty standard hardware that has been running SAB for two years with no issues

* what virusscanner / firewall is installed on the Windows Server - none

* what if you run wget on the Windows Server like this "wget https://news.supernews.com:563/ " ? - I tried running this is powershell and got:

wget : The server committed a protocol violation. Section=ResponseStatusLine
At line:1 char:1
+ wget https://news.supernews.com:563/
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (System.Net.HttpWebRequest:HttpWebRequest) [Invoke-WebRequest], WebExc
eption
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : WebCmdletWebResponseException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.InvokeWebRequestCommand

* what if you run curl on the Windows Server like this "curl https://news.supernews.com:563/ " ? - got the same above error
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Re: Untruster Certificate

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No Lenovo, so no built-in spyware. Good.

No virusscanner: good.

I'm not sure about the wget/curl/powershell error message: does that confirm the problem SAB also experiences (no secure connection to news.supernews.com), or is a program error?
What happens when you do "curl https://www.google.com/"

Additional, bonus question: what if you fill out "newsreader.eweka.nl" with SSL in SABnzbd, and click on Test Server?
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Re: Untrusted Certificate

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curl https://www.google.com/ - gave me a internet Explorer security pop-up

what if you fill out "newsreader.eweka.nl" with SSL in SABnzbd, and click on Test Server? - says it requires a username and password
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Re: Untrusted Certificate

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So I signed up for a giganews trial account just for SnG's, put in the server and credentials and it works with ssl. I then reset all the other servers to default and saved the changes and tested them and they all now work with SSL again. Wierd. Thanks for all the help though. =D
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Re: Untrusted Certificate

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Strange. But good that it works now.
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