New RHEL installs failing

[ronivay]

New installations to RHEL based distros fail currently due to forensics.cert.org repository not working.

# curl -I -L https://forensics.cert.org
curl: (56) OpenSSL SSL_read: Connection reset by peer, errno 104

As this might be a transient issue due to invalid certificate config, won't do any workaround just yet. If this isn't fixed soon, will look for an alternative.

[awstaskuser]

This might be a transient issue with their SSL configuration.

[ronivay]

This might be a transient issue with their SSL configuration.

Yeah as i said above 😄

[tig987]

It's an DNS issue.
forensics.cert.org is not reachable because there are no DNS records for this domain - see
https://www.nslookup.io/domains/forensics.cert.org/dns-records/

[ronivay]

It's an DNS issue.

forensics.cert.org is not reachable because there are no DNS records for this domain - see

https://www.nslookup.io/domains/forensics.cert.org/dns-records/

Yep now they've removed the whole DNS record. Probably won't come back then. Need to start thinking of an alternative.

[tig987]

found this blog post:
https://ludditus.com/2024/07/25/what-you-need-to-know-when-using-my-custom-almalinux-kde-iso/#comment-103637

Looks like CERT Forensics Tools will definitely not come back.

[ronivay]

Workaround is now in place to not install forensics repo or libvhdi-tools for RHEL distros. Obviously this isn't a proper fix but will allow installations to proceed until there's another working source for this package.