Thank you Dave and Lutz. Good to know that I can ignore the error message
"bad gethostbyaddr". Real problem is that "Client hello B" is not coming
through. Yes, there is a firewall in between client and server. Since the
SSL client was able to send in a few bytes ("cient hello A?") successfully,
firewall connection in this direction looks ok. It might be that firewall
doesn't allow communication in opposite direction (from server to client)
and hence client not receiving "server hello"? I will look into the firewall
side...Thanks, Byju Joy Dave Thompson-4 wrote: > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lutz Jaenicke >> Sent: Friday, 10 October, 2008 09:03 >> ----- Forwarded message from "Joy, Byju (GE Healthcare, >> consultant)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- >> >> Subject: DNS Error while doing SSL handshake - bad gethostbyaddr >> Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:00:51 +0200 >> Thread-Topic: DNS Error while doing SSL handshake - bad gethostbyaddr >> thread-index: Ackq2DkNLX4Go5QUSQWx6NJWZ9B4Hw== >> From: "Joy, Byju (GE Healthcare, consultant)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> Dear OpenSSL experts, >> >> I am trying to run OpenSSL version "OpenSSL 0.9.8i 15 Sep 2008" on >> Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition Version 5.2.3790. Could you please >> help me with "bad gethostbyaddr" error message while doing SSL >> handshake? Log is given below: >> > s_server calls do_server calls do_accept which, after the actual (TCP) > accept, > calls gethostbyaddr to try to get the client host's name. If your > system/network > doesn't have DNS set up to do reverse-mapping for that host, you get this > printed. > (That would include DNS not set up at all, but I don't think Svr03 can do > that. > It could include using a bad/wrong nameserver, or zone; or > unreachable/down > one; > or using a good nameserver but the zone admin doesn't do reverse-mapping > at > all > -- some don't; or didn't do it for that host -- particularly if it's a > dynamic > host e.g. a(nother) PC many admins don't consider it worth the trouble.) > > But it causes no harm; it just passes back a nullptr for the hostname > string, > which the actual logic (sv_body or www_body) never uses. The connection > can > still > be completed and used, at least through 0.9.8g and I doubt this would be > changed. > (If you actually want to fix the revlookup, you need to say more about the > type > and relative network location of the client machine, and if it's not > something > simple you'll probably need to go elsewhere to a network-mgt > group/list/forum.) > >> >> D:\OpenSSL2\bin>openssl >> OpenSSL> s_server -accept 443 -verify 2 -cert D:\my_crt.pem -key >> D:\my_key.pem -debug -msg -state -CAfile D:\CAcerts.pem -ssl3 >> verify depth is 2 >> Enter pass phrase for D:\my_key.pem: <my_pass_phrase> >> Loading 'screen' into random state - done >> Using default temp DH parameters >> Using default temp ECDH parameters >> ACCEPT >> bad gethostbyaddr >> SSL_accept:before/accept initialization >> read from 0xa533d0 [0xa6fc10] (5 bytes => 0 (0x0)) >> SSL_accept:failed in SSLv3 read client hello B > > This is your actual problem: you are not receiving the client hello. > You appear to be getting a normal TCP shutdown instead i.e. FIN not RST. > This might mean the client deliberately closed; on some system types > it also occurs if the client fails e.g. segfault; it might also occur > if something between you in the network like a firewall dislikes you. > >> ERROR >> shutting down SSL >> CONNECTION CLOSED >> ACCEPT > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org > User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org > Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/-FWD--DNS-Error-while-doing-SSL-handshake---bad-gethostbyaddr-tp19918981p19950564.html Sent from the OpenSSL - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
