SSL connection hangs as client hello (curl, openssl client, apt-get, wget, everything)

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Published on 2011-02-04T07:54:43Z Indexed on 2011/02/14 7:26 UTC
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Hi,

I've run into a problem on my Debian VPS (a xen domU) regarding SSL. Namely almost all SSL connections hangs at client hello. For example:

# curl -vI https://graph.facebook.com

  • About to connect() to graph.facebook.com port 443 (#0)
  • Trying 66.220.146.48... connected
  • Connected to graph.facebook.com (66.220.146.48) port 443 (#0)
  • successfully set certificate verify locations:
  • CAfile: none CApath: /etc/ssl/certs
  • SSLv3, TLS handshake, Client hello (1):

It's the same when using the openssl client. However, some of the SSL traffic works (for example https://www.nordea.se).

Server

#uname -a

Linux server.com 2.6.26-1-xen-amd64 #1 SMP Fri Mar 13 21:39:38 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux

It does however work on my Dom 0 (the main xen host).

Apt-get

I can't even run apt-get update with the debian security sources (hangs on reading headers)

Open SSL

At the begining I thought I had an old openssl client (0.9.8o-4) since I appeared to have a newer on the Dom 0 (0.9.8g-15+lenny8) but doing a manuanl update on the openssl deb didn't help.

Open SSL Client

This is the full output of when the openssl client hangs: http://pastebin.com/PAjwMap9

Closing thoughts

I've Googled the crap out of this, and I'm not getting any further. I've seen problems with curl, apt-get etc. but they are all specific relating to the very application - not general for the system. Any thoughts?

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