Re: [Puppet Users] sslv3 alert handshake failure

Martin Alfke
Fri, 06 Jul 2012 08:07:46 -0000

Hi,

- check time on client and server
- check ruby version on the 3 server which fail
- check SSLDir configuration in /etc/puppet/puppet.conf on the 3 systems.

Martin

On 06.07.2012, at 09:57, Martinus wrote:

> I have a problem on 3 out of ~40 servers that gives the following error:
>
> err: Could not request certificate: SSL_connect returned=1 errno=0
state=unknown state: sslv3 alert handshake failure
>
> From previous posts, I made sure that SSLVerifyClient is set to optional.
I also cleared /var/lib/puppet/ssl/ client side, not that it should make any
difference as this error is on the first run of Puppet.
>
> When I try to run Puppet from either of these 3 servers, there is nothing
noted in /var/log/apache2/* server side.  I have confirmed networking is ok with
telnet and also checked that there is traffic with tcpdump.
>
> Puppet server is at 2.7.11 and client is also at 2.7.11 both from Ubuntu
repositories.
>
> Any help would be appreciated to find why these 3 particular servers is
giving me problems.
>
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