Bug 260372

Summary:	missing correct certificate to download from mirror in Malaysia
Product:	Services	Reporter:	wa5qjh
Component:	FTP/WWW Sites & Mirrors	Assignee:	FreeBSD Mirror Admin <mirror-admin>
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Many People	CC:	philip
Priority:	---
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description wa5qjh 2021-12-12 23:25:13 UTC

Attempting to download FreeBSD-12.3 ( or ANY RELEASE for any architect  ) in Philippines from mirror in Malaysia fails for incorrect or missing certificate. This has been a recurring problem for at least several months when downloading either for amd64 or the arm64 images that I've tried.
 notes:
downloading on an Rpi 3B in Release 12.2 in a country with some of the sorriest internet from a rural area with speeds <1/20 national average (55kb/s at the moment), to be run on an hp laptop with the bios or os corrupted. (just so you understand the odd combination).
This is my first bug report since I began using FreeBSD around 1993.

Here is where I was told to report the problem by @freebsdhelp on twitter.

Comment 1 wa5qjh 2021-12-12 23:46:40 UTC

Forgot to mention that missing certificate complaint registered by lynx browser as well as downloading with wget or fetch. With Lynx browser searching download.freebsd.org on down thru directory tree, everywhere stop to allow bad certificate.

Comment 2 Philip Paeps freebsd_committer

2021-12-13 02:59:04 UTC

As far as I can tell, the certificates on the Malaysian mirror are correct.

E.g., this works fine:

curl --connect-to download.freebsd.org:443:ftp0.kul.freebsd.org:443 https://download.freebsd.org

You could try downloading over plain HTTP or FTP and compare the checksums against a securely downloaded checksums file.

Comment 3 wa5qjh 2021-12-14 10:59:57 UTC

How do I kill this report completely?
Due to an error on my part, I really need to cancel this completely!
PLEASE, if someone can help me or do it for me would greatly appreciate it!