I'm trying to create and provision a new EC2 instance with knife, but keep running into an SSL error:
$bundle exec knife ec2 server create
ERROR: Excon::Errors::SocketError: hostname "ec2.us-east-1b.amazonaws.com" does not match the server certificate (OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError)
I'm running this from a mac (10.7) using ruby 2.0.0p0:
$ruby -v
ruby 2.0.0p0 (2013-02-24 revision 39474) [x86_64-darwin11.4.2]
I'm fairly certain I compiled ruby with openssl support correctly. Running require 'openssl' from irb returns true. I'm using OpenSSL 1.0.1e installed via homebrew.
I also tried running knife with ruby 1.9.3-p194. That has the same result, with a slightly less helpful error message: "ERROR: Excon::Errors::SocketError: hostname does not match the server certificate (OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError)". That difference is the result of this pull request, which improved the error message: https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/122.
The following output from curl might be relevant:
$curl -v https://ec2.us-east-1b.amazonaws.com
* About to connect() to ec2.us-east-1b.amazonaws.com port 443 (#0)
* Trying 67.215.65.132... connected
* Connected to ec2.us-east-1b.amazonaws.com (67.215.65.132) port 443 (#0)
* SSLv3, TLS handshake, Client hello (1):
* SSLv3, TLS handshake, Server hello (2):
* SSLv3, TLS handshake, CERT (11):
* SSLv3, TLS handshake, Server finished (14):
* SSLv3, TLS handshake, Client key exchange (16):
* SSLv3, TLS change cipher, Client hello (1):
* SSLv3, TLS handshake, Finished (20):
* SSLv3, TLS change cipher, Client hello (1):
* SSLv3, TLS handshake, Finished (20):
* SSL connection using AES256-SHA
* Server certificate:
* subject: serialNumber=UoFmxu6ta5ecJiIs4su2w-q-u8rxJ/d3; OU=GT55236522; OU=See www.rapidssl.com/resources/cps (c)12; OU=Domain Control Validated - RapidSSL(R); CN=*.opendns.com
* start date: 2012-08-23 10:11:50 GMT
* expire date: 2014-09-25 12:42:00 GMT
* subjectAltName does not match ec2.us-east-1b.amazonaws.com
* Closing connection #0
* SSLv3, TLS alert, Client hello (1):
* SSL peer certificate or SSH remote key was not OK
curl: (51) SSL peer certificate or SSH remote key was not OK
Is there something else I need to configure in order to successfully create an EC2 instance with knife?
In my knife.rb configuration file, I had this line:
knife[:region] = 'us-east-1b'
That worked at some point in the past, but the correct current setting is:
knife[:region] = 'us-east-1'
Removing the 'b' resolves the SSL hostname error:
$curl -v https://ec2.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
* About to connect() to ec2.us-east-1.amazonaws.com port 443 (#0)
* Trying 205.251.242.7... connected
* Connected to ec2.us-east-1.amazonaws.com (205.251.242.7) port 443 (#0)
* SSLv3, TLS handshake, Client hello (1):
* SSLv3, TLS handshake, Server hello (2):
* SSLv3, TLS handshake, CERT (11):
* SSLv3, TLS handshake, Server finished (14):
* SSLv3, TLS handshake, Client key exchange (16):
* SSLv3, TLS change cipher, Client hello (1):
* SSLv3, TLS handshake, Finished (20):
* SSLv3, TLS change cipher, Client hello (1):
* SSLv3, TLS handshake, Finished (20):
* SSL connection using RC4-MD5
* Server certificate:
* subject: C=US; ST=Washington; L=Seattle; O=Amazon.com Inc.; CN=ec2.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
* start date: 2010-10-08 00:00:00 GMT
* expire date: 2013-10-07 23:59:59 GMT
* subjectAltName: ec2.us-east-1.amazonaws.com matched
* issuer: C=US; O=VeriSign, Inc.; OU=VeriSign Trust Network; OU=Terms of use at https://www.verisign.com/rpa (c)09; CN=VeriSign Class 3 Secure Server CA - G2
* SSL certificate verify ok.
> GET / HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.21.4 (universal-apple-darwin11.0) libcurl/7.21.4 OpenSSL/0.9.8r zlib/1.2.5
> Host: ec2.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
> Accept: */*
>
< HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
< Location: http://aws.amazon.com/ec2
< Content-Length: 0
< Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2013 21:15:51 GMT
< Server: AmazonEC2
<
* Connection #0 to host ec2.us-east-1.amazonaws.com left intact
* Closing connection #0
* SSLv3, TLS alert, Client hello (1):