Lets Encrypt Error: The server could not connect to the client to verify the domain :: Failed to connect to host for DVSNI challenge

Are you using Lets Encrypt? (If not, you should go ahead and use it to generate SSL certificates to ALL of your web servers). If you want to run it on EC2 or GCE using the –standalone argument (./letsencrypt-auto certonly –standalone -d example.com) make sure port 443 (for SSL) is open on that server. Otherwise you’ll get the infamous: `Are you using Lets Encrypt? (If not, you should go ahead and use it to generate SSL certificates to ALL of your web servers). [Read More]

Crawling to the people

Yaniv let the cat out of the bag about some of our ideas for making other parts of the search and its relevant data open, free and accessible to all of us. I’d thought I’ll add some background and my thoughts on the subject. First, the idea was iterated a couple of times when we were in that place where you have a solution(s) and you are seeking a problem(s) to solve. [Read More]