rsync - Dec 2024 - on rsync.samba.org, there's an SSL-certificate pointing to a berlin dancer website?

Hi everyone :)

On the [official website regarding rsync mailing 
lists](https://rsync.samba.org/lists.html), the text contains a link:

"but please [read this before posting]"

Which points to:
https://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Which throws a "bad_domain_error" SSL error, listing 
"www.animadance.org" as (domain) subject name of the certificate. The 
Website "animadance.org" is a personal website of a Berlin dancer.


I assume this is not the intended behavior?
When I "accept the risk and continue", I do get to the article by Eric
S. Raymond :)



I can provide additional information or screenshots if necessary, but 
I've tried with 2 browsers (but not on 2 systems yet, so it may still be 
my machine).


Regards,
Peter B.

"Peter B. via rsync" <rsync at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> On the [official website regarding rsync mailing 
> lists](https://rsync.samba.org/lists.html), the text contains a link:
>
> "but please [read this before posting]"
>
> Which points to:
> https://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>
> Which throws a "bad_domain_error" SSL error, listing 
> "www.animadance.org" as (domain) subject name of the certificate.
The
> Website "animadance.org" is a personal website of a Berlin
dancer.
>
> ...
> When I "accept the risk and continue", I do get to the article by
Eric
> S. Raymond :)
Sounds as if the catb.org domain registration expired and got bought
by someone unrelated to the original owner.  The wonder is that the
previous content is still there.

That article must be mirrored and/or archived in dozens, if not
hundreds, of other places.  Maybe someone (ahem) sane can find a
better target for the link.

If you load the link as http instead of https it works and has the 
content that I am pretty sure is supposed to be there though it could 
use some CSS to make it less ugly.

Otherwise, it appears to be a misconfiguration on the web server as both 
of those names resolve to the same IP address.


On 12/9/24 17:11, Peter B. via rsync wrote:
> Hi everyone :)
> 
> On the [official website regarding rsync mailing lists](https:// 
> rsync.samba.org/lists.html), the text contains a link:
> 
> "but please [read this before posting]"
> 
> Which points to:
> https://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
> 
> Which throws a "bad_domain_error" SSL error, listing 
> "www.animadance.org" as (domain) subject name of the certificate.
The
> Website "animadance.org" is a personal website of a Berlin
dancer.
> 
> 
> I assume this is not the intended behavior?
> When I "accept the risk and continue", I do get to the article by
Eric
> S. Raymond :)
> 
> 
> 
> I can provide additional information or screenshots if necessary, but 
> I've tried with 2 browsers (but not on 2 systems yet, so it may still
be
> my machine).
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Peter B.
>