Hi Marc,

I need to take a closer look.
Would you please share how have you requested the certificates from
Let's Encrypt?
Is this an IPv6-only environment? Do those hostnames resolve only to
IPv6 addresses?

Regards,
Andor



On Wed, 2021-10-13 at 15:47 +0200, Marc Richter wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> for some days now, I am trying to wrap my head around TLS encryption
> for the quorum-traffic. The hosts running Zookeeper do have a
> publicly available DNS name and I am using those to issue SSL
> certificates from Let's Encrypt.
> This seems to work - but it seems like Zookeeper decides to validate
> the SSL certificates against the IP(v6) of the connecting nodes
> instead of their hostnames.
> 
> In the `zookeeper.properties` of all my 3 nodes, I have set the
> servers by their DNS names like this:
> 
> ```
> server.1=zookeeper1.ourdomain.cloud:2888:3888
> server.2=zookeeper2.ourdomain.cloud:2888:3888
> server.3=zookeeper3.ourdomain.cloud:2888:3888
> ```
> 
> I requested SSL certificates from Let's Encrypt for these DNS names
> and added the certificate/key pairs to the Keystores of the nodes.
> 
> In the logs of the `zookeeper2` node, I now see something like this
> when the `zookeeper3` node tries to connect:
> 
> ```
> [2021-10-13 15:13:49,960] INFO Received connection request from
> /2a01:--CUT--:750:47566
> (org.apache.zookeeper.server.quorum.QuorumCnxManager)
> [2021-10-13 15:13:50,094] ERROR Failed to verify host address: 2a01:-
> -CUT--:750 (org.apache.zookeeper.common.ZKTrustManager)
> javax.net.ssl.SSLPeerUnverifiedException: Certificate for <2a01:--
> CUT--:750> doesn't match any of the subject alternative names:
> [zookeeper3.ourdomain.cloud]
> ```
> 
> Zookeeper seems to ignore the hostnames and complains about that the
> IPv6 is not listed in the SNA of the presented certificate. Since
> most open CAs do not sign IP addresses (Let's Encrypt does not do
> that at all, ZeroSSL only for http auth, etc.), this behaviour
> enforces me to have an internal CA and work with self signed
> certificates; including all the negative things that come with it and
> a lot of extra effort.
> 
> How can I make Zookeeper to resolve this correctly?
> 
> Best regards,
> Marc


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