[Pkg-privacy-maintainers] DMD: TLS connection issues result in wrong information

[Andreas Tille]

Hi,

On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 08:06:01PM +0200, Ulrike Uhlig wrote:
> you are both listed as the maintainers of the Debian Maintainer Dashboard.

Interesting.  That's the first time I hear that my name is connected
to DMD. ;-)
 
> I have an issue with a specific DMD [1]: there are lots of connection
> errors to TLS protected websites which make the dashboard slightly
> unusable for our team, and I believe they must be due to some firewall
> restriction or filtering issue on the host machine:
> 
> debian/watch: uscan returned an error: In watchfile debian/watch,
> reading webpage https://www.torproject.org/dist/torbirdy/ failed: 500
> Can't connect to www.torproject.org:443
> 
> debian/watch: uscan returned an error: In watchfile debian/watch,
> reading webpage https://keyringer.pw/releases/ failed: 500 Can't connect
> to keyringer.pw:443
> 
> debian/watch: uscan returned an error: In watchfile debian/watch,
> reading webpage https://0xacab.org/jvoisin/mat2/tags failed: 500 Can't
> connect to 0xacab.org:443	
> 
> All these URLs are perfectly accessible from any other non-filtered
> locations. I let you verify that for yourself.

Sorry, I have no idea at all.
 
> Do you know why this is happening and what to do about it?
> It seems to me that the machine on which DMD runs is hosted at a US
> university [1]. Do you think it might be due to that? And if so, how can
> this be mitigated? Can this service run on a non-filtered network?
> 
> Also, if my message should reach someone else, like debian-qa@ who seems
> to be responsible for UDD, please let me know.

I usually use debian-qa at l.d.o for UDD connected questions.

Kind regards

     Andreas.
 
> [1]
> https://udd.debian.org/dmd/?email1=ulrike%40debian.org&email2=pkg-privacy-maintainers%40lists.alioth.debian.org&email3=u%40451f.org&packages=&ignpackages=&format=html#todo
> [1] https://db.debian.org/machines.cgi?host=ullmann
> 

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