TLS failure

Phil Dobbin bukowskiscat at gmail.com
Sun Oct 21 19:49:44 UTC 2018


On 21/10/2018 20:16, Colin Law wrote:

> I have a very strange problem, which may well not actually be a Ubuntu
> problem, but I would be grateful for any help in diagnosing it.
> When I go to https://vehicletax.service.gov.uk/ in Firefox it shows
> 'Performing a TLS Handshake to vehicletax.service.gov.uk' for a little
> while then fails saying 'Secure Connection Failed, The connection to
> the server was reset while the page was loading'.  A similar thing
> happens in Google Chrome.  Also it happens on two machines, one
> running Ubuntu 18.04 and the other 18.10.
> 
> However, if I connect via a VPN that I run (in the UK) then it
> connects ok, which suggests it is something to do with the router or
> connection to the internet.  This is supported by the fact that if I
> connect my phone to the wifi it does the same thing, but if I connect
> via mobile data it works ok.
> 
> I have not got any problems accessing other websites that I have
> noticed.  Nothing has changed with my router (which is running LEDE)
> for many months.  I do run pihole adblocker on my system but disabling
> that makes no difference.
> 
> I am lost as to what to do next and would be very grateful for any suggestions.

FWIW it loads fine in 16.04 & Firefox Developer Edition.

Cheers,

  Phil.

-- 
Men are much better than their ordinary life allows them to be
     JB Priestley

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