For those who are interested in a difficult one, FreeBSD over VPN, SSL error
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Dear PF users,
I am trying to install a pkg on a FreeBSD workstation over my OpenVPN. The terminal session is active on my Windows 7 Desktop.
It's the first time I am encountering this error.It is worth to mention that I have upgraded (fresh install) Pfsense from x86 to x64 a few days ago.
The FreeBSD workstation might have older ssl information from the former pfsense config, but that's a rough guess.Anyways if this error persists, there is no way to control the FreeBSD workstation in the future remotely.
Do you guys have a first opinion about this matter?
I added a screen shot, never came across this before.
There is a Dutch saying: When you have a problem, you must buy a computer, then you'll have two.
Any thoughts are very welcome.
Thank you
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You have captive portal enabled? Somehow your FreeBSD system's pkg is pulling via HTTPS from something on the firewall, most likely way that HTTP could end up redirected to HTTPS in that way would be captive portal.
Only other way I can think of is if you made pkg.freebsd.org resolve to your LAN IP with a DNS override or similar. Then it'd be hitting the GUI's web server instance, which redirects HTTP to HTTPS.
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'Somehow your FreeBSD system's pkg is pulling via HTTPS'
I'm afraid you're correct.
Captive portal, hmm, I know now sort of what it means.
Are you talking about a specific setting to disable it?
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If you don't know what captive portal is, then you probably don't have it enabled. But check Services>Captive Portal. That would intercept web requests. If that's not enabled, what output do you get on the FreeBSD machine for "host pkg.freebsd.org"?