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I noticed some errors on our gateways recently.
They could not check for updates.
It seems the update servers are not behaving properly.
I tried multiple times, 1 out of 5 responded correctly, the other gave an error or timed out during TLS handshake.
See below for details on a few tries.
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TLS handshake timeout
curl_cli -v -k https://updates.checkpoint.com/
* Trying 194.29.39.19...
* Connected to updates.checkpoint.com (194.29.39.19) port 443 (#0)
* Cipher selection: HIGH:!RC4:!LOW:!EXP:!aNULL:!SSLv2:!MD5:!aECDH:!EDH
* *** Current date is: Thu Sep 27 11:50:52 2018
* TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS handshake, Client hello (1):
* err is -1, detail is 2
* *** Current date is: Thu Sep 27 11:53:27 2018
* err is -1, detail is 5
* errdetail=0x0
ERR_lib_error_string: (nil)
ERR_func_error_string: (nil)
ERR_reason_error_string: (nil)
ERR_error_string: error:00000000:lib(0):func(0):reason(0)
* Unknown SSL protocol error in connection to updates.checkpoint.com:443
* Closing connection 0
curl: (35) Unknown SSL protocol error in connection to updates.checkpoint.com:443
---
Apparently OK connection
curl_cli -v -k https://updates.checkpoint.com/
* Trying 209.87.209.87...
* Connected to updates.checkpoint.com (209.87.209.87) port 443 (#0)
* Cipher selection: HIGH:!RC4:!LOW:!EXP:!aNULL:!SSLv2:!MD5:!aECDH:!EDH
* *** Current date is: Thu Sep 27 11:50:17 2018
* TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS handshake, Client hello (1):
* err is -1, detail is 2
* *** Current date is: Thu Sep 27 11:50:18 2018
* TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Server hello (2):
* err is -1, detail is 2
* *** Current date is: Thu Sep 27 11:50:18 2018
* TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Certificate (11):
* TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Server finished (14):
* TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS handshake, Client key exchange (16):
* TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS change cipher, Client hello (1):
* TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS handshake, Finished (20):
* err is -1, detail is 2
* *** Current date is: Thu Sep 27 11:50:18 2018
* TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS change cipher, Client hello (1):
* TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Finished (20):
* SSL connection using TLSv1.2 / AES256-SHA256
* servercert: Activated
* servercert: CRL validation was disabled
* Server certificate:
* subject: OU=Domain Control Validated; CN=*.checkpoint.com
* start date: Dec 24 13:34:00 2017 GMT
* expire date: Dec 24 13:34:00 2018 GMT
* issuer: C=US; ST=Arizona; L=Scottsdale; O=GoDaddy.com, Inc.; OU=http://certs.godaddy.com/repository/; CN=Go Daddy Secure Certificate Authority - G2
* SSL certificate verify result: self signed certificate in certificate chain (19), continuing anyway.
* servercert: Finished
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2018 09:50:19 GMT
< Server: Apache
< Last-Modified: Mon, 02 Apr 2012 20:31:37 GMT
< Accept-Ranges: bytes
< Content-Length: 306
< Content-Type: text/html
<
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<META HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" CONTENT = "0; URL=http://www.checkpoint.com">
<SCRIPT Language="JavaScript">
window.location.replace('http://www.checkpoint.com');
</SCRIPT>
</head>
</html>
* Connection #0 to host updates.checkpoint.com left intact
---
Handshake OK, SSL read error
curl_cli -v -k https://updates.checkpoint.com/
* Trying 209.87.209.87...
* Connected to updates.checkpoint.com (209.87.209.87) port 443 (#0)
* Cipher selection: HIGH:!RC4:!LOW:!EXP:!aNULL:!SSLv2:!MD5:!aECDH:!EDH
* *** Current date is: Thu Sep 27 11:50:12 2018
* TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS handshake, Client hello (1):
* err is -1, detail is 2
* *** Current date is: Thu Sep 27 11:50:12 2018
* TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Server hello (2):
* err is -1, detail is 2
* *** Current date is: Thu Sep 27 11:50:12 2018
* TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Certificate (11):
* TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Server finished (14):
* TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS handshake, Client key exchange (16):
* TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS change cipher, Client hello (1):
* TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS handshake, Finished (20):
* err is -1, detail is 2
* *** Current date is: Thu Sep 27 11:50:13 2018
* TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS change cipher, Client hello (1):
* TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Finished (20):
* SSL connection using TLSv1.2 / AES256-SHA256
* servercert: Activated
* servercert: CRL validation was disabled
* Server certificate:
* subject: OU=Domain Control Validated; CN=*.checkpoint.com
* start date: Dec 24 13:34:00 2017 GMT
* expire date: Dec 24 13:34:00 2018 GMT
* issuer: C=US; ST=Arizona; L=Scottsdale; O=GoDaddy.com, Inc.; OU=http://certs.godaddy.com/repository/; CN=Go Daddy Secure Certificate Authority - G2
* SSL certificate verify result: self signed certificate in certificate chain (19), continuing anyway.
* servercert: Finished
* SSL read: error:00000000:lib(0):func(0):reason(0), errno 104
* Closing connection 0
curl: (56) SSL read: error:00000000:lib(0):func(0):reason(0), errno 104
Check Point Services Status reports no issues.
Tried it from Qualys/SSLlabs ”test your server” SSL Server Test: updates.checkpoint.com (Powered by Qualys SSL Labs)
It timed out reading the certificate.
Not sure if you had anything to do with reporting this, but here it is.
Yep, I reported it. The incident is now shown.
Same problem here!
This should be one of those things that Check Point reports / announces to the community better.
Status for this issue just went from "Investigating" to "Identified"
So it will hopefully be resolved soon.
same issue here
Agree with Alex Weldon this can be reported to the community better. Just subscribed to Updates on the Services Status page. Let's see how well it works.
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