[rabbitmq-discuss] SSL support

Tue Oct 11 10:38:20 BST 2011

On 10/10/11 19:19, Pascal Pochet wrote:
> Yes it's a recent version:
>
> otp R14B03
> Rabbit 2.2.0-2.2

Not recent enough I'm afraid - we changed the way that configuration 
parameter worked when we added IPv6 support in 2.3.0. Before that it 
needed the {IPAddress, Port} tuple.

> (don't miss the point: without the host address the server runs fine, but only on non-SSL port 5672)

I suspect the broker is failing to read the tcp_listeners configuration 
and defaulting to {"0.0.0.0", 5672}.

Cheers, Simon

> to find out what it is, it will probably require logging at low level in Erlang itself,
> I suspect low level Unix functions to return something weird when running under a VM
> (currently a Parallels-one but I will try converting to VMWare format and compare…)
> (or a bzero of inet struct missing somewhere… )
>
> Note also the VM runs with bridged Ethernet-2 port assigned to it (MacPro has 2 Ethernet ports)
> while the Mac OS X host itself is connected to network thru Ethernet-1.
>
> Anyway even if the solution is trivial, the cause should be found
> to be sure no subtle problem may further prevent hassle-free deployment on VMs in general.
>
> So sharing of experiences of SSL deployment under VMs of different distribution/different host hardware and OS is welcome…
>
>
> Pascal P. Pochet
> P3 Consulting
>
>
>
> Le 10 oct. 2011 à 16:28, Simon MacMullen a écrit :
>
>> On 10/10/11 15:19, Pascal Pochet wrote:
>>> After some time trying why the explanations at http://www.rabbitmq.com/ssl.html
>>> didn't work for me without any error message, just the
>>>
>>> started SSL Listener on …:5671
>>>
>>> never appearing in the log,
>>>
>>> I eventually discovered that the working syntax for the
>>> ssl_listeners in rabbitmq.config is the one specifying the interface explicitly:
>>>
>>>                  {ssl_listeners, [{"127.0.0.1", 5671}] },
>>>
>>> and not
>>>
>>>                  {ssl_listeners, [5671] },
>>
>> Is this with a recent RabbitMQ version? Older versions require the first variant.
>>
>>> Env. : OpenSuse LE 11.3 (in VM under OS X 10.6)
>>>
>>> Could be useful to update the documentation:
>>>
>>> "Some Linux config may require the interface to be explicitly specified".
>>>
>>> ("Why" is still an opened question, if somebody knows…)
>>
>> I'd rather fix the problem, assuming we can find out what it is...
>>
>> Cheers, Simon
>>
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>> Simon MacMullen
>> RabbitMQ, VMware
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Simon MacMullen
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