[gnutls-help] Trouble with wildcard cert on servers without FQDNs?

Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos nmav at gnutls.org
Fri Jul 29 18:17:35 CEST 2016


On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 6:04 PM, Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com> wrote:
> No, that wasn't it.  The test script fails even when the ubuntu
> package ca-certificates is installed.
> And the test script is all self-signed anyway, there's no outside
> server involved.
> In fact, it fails on my laptop, which has all the certs a normal user needs.
>
> The script works fine without the wildcard, too, even in the clean container.
> It really does feel like the wildcard triggers some surprising
> requirement in gnutls.
> Maybe I should try registering a FQDN for my laptop and see if that helps :-)

I doubt that has anything to do with it. What error messages do you
get from gnutls? Did you try setting GNUTLS_DEBUG_LEVEL=9?

regards,
Nikos



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