[Nagiosplug-devel] misleading "Error: Could not complete SSL handshake" message?

[Andreas Ericsson]

John Rodriguez wrote:
> When configuring Nagios to use the nrpe plugin for remote monitoring, I
> received an error saying 
> 
> "Error: Could not complete SSL handshake"
> 
> After querying the Nagios FAQ database and several online bulletin boards,
> the problem remained.  I then compared my nrpe.cfg to a sample one online,
> and noticed that the ALLOWED_HOST_ADDRESS are delimited without spaces.
> 
>  
> 
> My problem was listing the ips as such:
> 
> xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
> 
> as opposed to
> 
> xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx,xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
> 
>  
> 
> Is this the intended behavior?  Is a rudimentary check for proper
> configuration formatting in order?  The error logs in debug mode aren't very
> helpful in recognizing this possible misconfiguration.
> 

It's been fixed in cvs already.

>  
> 
> Just passing along my findings, hope they prove helpful.
> 
>  
> 
> -John
> 
> ----------------------------------------
> 
> John Rodriguez
> 
> New Media Associate
> 
> Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL)
> 
> jr534 at columbia.edu
> 
>  
> 
> 

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