Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2015 02:13:48 +0000 From: Yass Amed <zagazaw2004@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: is something wrong with forums.freebsd.org? Message-ID: <CALvWPyacEGzAbg9Ms3z_1ep04NWGO6EdW6JSj0qTSzdz7-nZyg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CALvWPyb6zqMB6rmkfx3-88XoR%2BMO4K93cE8unPFLzHUm8Wms0w@mail.gmail.com> References: <CALvWPyb6zqMB6rmkfx3-88XoR%2BMO4K93cE8unPFLzHUm8Wms0w@mail.gmail.com>
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Iun 27, 2015 7:00 AM, <freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org> wrote: > > Send freebsd-questions mailing list submissions to > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > freebsd-questions-owner@freebsd.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of freebsd-questions digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Is there something wrong with forums.freebsd.org? (Ian Smith) > 2. Re: Is there something wrong with forums.freebsd.org? > (Valeri Galtsev) > 3. Re: how to fix "CORRUPT" partition table in mirrored drive > (Valeri Galtsev) > 4. Re: Is there something wrong with forums.freebsd.org? (Quartz) > 5. Re: Working and Supported SCSI Controller (Bernt Hansson) > 6. Re: Working and Supported SCSI Controller (Josh Paetzel) > 7. Following up on Wyoming Students and Parents Education > Resources (Ana Berjuega) > 8. Simplifying lang/pypy(3) (David Naylor) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2015 23:12:27 +1000 (EST) > From: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> > To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> > Cc: Quartz <quartz@sneakertech.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Is there something wrong with forums.freebsd.org? > Message-ID: <20150626224716.J14881@sola.nimnet.asn.au> > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > > In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 577, Issue 5, Message: 20 > On Thu, 25 Jun 2015 19:01:44 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote: > > On Thu, 25 Jun 2015, Quartz wrote: > > > > >>>>> Let me ask this a different way: did they update to something so new > > >>>>> that it only works on very recent OSs? Like should I test with a > > >>>>> windows 8 system or something? > > >>>> > > >>>> No. Firefox 38 on FreeBSD 10-STABLE here, works fine. > > >>> > > >>> Well, given that 10.0 came out only a year and a half ago, that > > >>> doesn't really give me any more info. I'm wondering where the cutoff > > >>> is for "too old" in this case, assuming that's even the issue. > > >> > > >> It is the browser, not the operating system. Unless you have an > > >> unpatched openSSL, maybe. > > > > > > OK, where does curl fit into that then? Presumably all the versions I have > > > access to are too old I guess. > > > > There was a problem curl linking to both the base and ports version of > > openssl not too long ago, and consequently breaking other applications. > > Sorry, been away, just catching up a bit .. > > This seems likely because Quartz' curl (or the way it's setup) doesn't > support TLS 1.1 or 1.2 for https connections, which forums.freebsd.org > now requires, to gain higher security rankings and favour from google. > > There was a long and probably considered off-topic thread during May on > freebsd-security@ about it, in which I was silly enough to participate > because my (ok, ancient) SeaMonkey can no longer connect to the forums. > > Skim thread 'Forums.FreeBSD.org - SSL Issue?' for the gory details: > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-security/2015-May/008350.html > > cheers, Ian > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2015 09:49:55 -0500 (CDT) > From: "Valeri Galtsev" <galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu> > To: "jd1008" <jd1008@gmail.com> > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Is there something wrong with forums.freebsd.org? > Message-ID: > <35572.128.135.70.2.1435330195.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> > Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 > > > On Thu, June 25, 2015 9:21 pm, jd1008 wrote: > > > > > > On 06/25/2015 06:15 PM, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > >> On 06/25/15 18:23, Quartz wrote: > >>>>> check your OS and browser version, they recently updated SSL. > >>>> > >>>> It doesn't matter what OS or browser I'm using, this happens on every > >>>> machine and even curl. > >>> > >>> Let me ask this a different way: did they update to something so new > >>> that it only works on very recent OSs? Like should I test with a > >>> windows 8 system or something? > >>> > >> Why would freebsd.org mangle its website so it only worked w/ Windoze ? > >> > > They did not! > > I just used Linux to access it with Firefox. > > No problems!! > > > Indeed. I can see it from FreeBSD (Firefox and midori) from macintosh > (vivaldi browser). It is interesting how some people mind works: they > never assume wrong on their own side... > > Valeri > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Valeri Galtsev > Sr System Administrator > Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics > Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics > University of Chicago > Phone: 773-702-4247 > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > > ------------------------------ > I tried accessing the forums from Linux-based distro, BSD(Freebsd and OpenBSD), Windows, and Android successfully using Firefox. The only time I cannot access the forums is when using Tor browser. Hope that helps.
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