[TriLUG] NCSECU website

Jason Faulkner jason at oldos.org
Fri Mar 9 16:50:47 EST 2007


You know, it didn't work at home on Vista, but it works on my work
laptop with XP.


On 3/9/07, Brian Daniels <bitmage at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 02:04:53PM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote:
> > I'm wondering if someone more skilled at web stuff than I am can take a
> > look at the NC State Employees Credit Union website,
> > http://www.ncsecu.org. I've always used it just fine from linux using
> > firefox/iceweasel as the browser; suddenly this week, I can't access it
> > using linux but it works fine from a windows session within vmware on the
> > same machine. This is aggravating, of course, but I don't even know how to
> > begin diagnosing it and I have a nagging suspicion that the IT people
> > there won't want to spend much time on it either. Any ideas what might be
> > happening?
> >
>
> I've been investigating this one for a bit and contacting SECU's support.
> They're aware, although they don't have a fix.  Interestingly, Firefox on
> Windows Vista has the same issue.
>
> In my tests, systems that use openssl-0.9.8 have the issue, systems on
> openssl-0.9.7 don't.  So on this FC5 box, no browser I tried (Firefox,
> Konqueror, Lynx) can access the site.  Same on my FC6 box at home.
>
> An old FC3 box I have here worked fine.
>
> Booting Knoppix 5.1.1 on my machine reproduces the problem.  Knoppix 4.0.2 (with
> the older SSL lib) works fine on the same hardware and network address.
>
> This seems cut-and-dried, except that others on the list are using the later
> versions without problems. :-(
>
> SECU's still working on it, and the Vista impact gives me hope that it will be
> fixed and not written off.
>
> --Brian
>
>
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>
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