On 2/6/15 5:19 AM, Lukas Pirl wrote:

> Yes, this was me. I wasn't sure about the confidentiality of the fURL
> so I modified it. Sorry for not pointing this out in the first place.

Ah, ok. TubIDs are the public part of the FURL; the "SwissNum" on the
right-hand-side of the last slash are the secret part.

 pb://TUBID@CONNECTIONHINTS/SWISSNUM

The TubID is requested in plaintext during the negotiation phase, so
it's not secret against someone eavesdropping. It specifies which TLS
certificate is expected, which lets the right secure channel be
established during negotiation. The SwissNum isn't sent until after that
channel is operating.

> /etc/hosts looks fine. It just contains the usual lines pointing to
> localhost.
> 
> Well, it's sad that I cannot reproduce this because it works since the
> administrator of the host updated the system…

Hooray for unexplained mysteries :). Maybe the network had a stale ARP
table entry which sent your traffic for system 1 to system 2 instead. Or
maybe local DNS was confused with a similar effect. One other wild idea
is that there was a firewall rule that caused some sort of
port-forwarding to happen, and your packets were being sent to the wrong
host.

Anyways, glad it's working now!

cheers,
 -Brian


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