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#12910 EPEL metalink URL gives SSL [error:0A0000C6:SSL routines::packet length too long]
Closed: Fixed by kevin. Opened by gbailey.

Closed: Fixed
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I have multiple systems running AlmaLinux 9 (x86_64) that have the EPEL repo enabled.

All of them seem to give an SSL error when performing dnf upgrade --refresh:

# dnf upgrade --refresh
AlmaLinux 9 - AppStream                                                                                                                                        18 kB/s | 4.2 kB     00:00    
AlmaLinux 9 - BaseOS                                                                                                                                           17 kB/s | 3.8 kB     00:00    
AlmaLinux 9 - Extras                                                                                                                                           14 kB/s | 3.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 9 - x86_64                                                                                                                0.0  B/s |   0  B     00:00    
Errors during downloading metadata for repository 'epel':
  - Curl error (35): SSL connect error for https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-9&arch=x86_64&infra=$infra&content=$contentdir [error:0A0000C6:SSL routines::packet length too long]
Error: Failed to download metadata for repo 'epel': Cannot prepare internal mirrorlist: Curl error (35): SSL connect error for https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-9&arch=x86_64&infra=$infra&content=$contentdir [error:0A0000C6:SSL routines::packet length too long]

Apologies if this is the wrong place to report this...

Can you run 'curl -vv' on that url and provide the output?

Now I get:

Now I get:

# dnf upgrade --refresh
AlmaLinux 9 - AppStream                                                                                                                                        18 kB/s | 4.2 kB     00:00    
AlmaLinux 9 - BaseOS                                                                                                                                           17 kB/s | 3.8 kB     00:00    
AlmaLinux 9 - Extras                                                                                                                                           13 kB/s | 3.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 9 - x86_64                                                                                                                 41  B/s | 272  B     00:06    
Errors during downloading metadata for repository 'epel':
  - Status code: 404 for https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-9&arch=x86_64&infra=$infra&content=$contentdir (IP: 2600:1f14:fad:5c02:eb33:e938:35cc:965b)
Error: Failed to download metadata for repo 'epel': Cannot prepare internal mirrorlist: Status code: 404 for https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-9&arch=x86_64&infra=$infra&content=$contentdir (IP: 2600:1f14:fad:5c02:eb33:e938:35cc:965b)

curl output attached; but it seems to succeed sometimes as well...
curl_vv_fedora.txt

Here's curl output that gives a 404: (attached)
curl_vv_failure.txt

found it. It should be fixed in a few minutes.

I was hitting this too and now it works for me.

What was the fix?

There was a proxy that was supposed to be out for reinstall... but it wasn't fully removed. ;(

Sorry about that.

Metadata Update from @kevin:
- Issue close_status updated to: Fixed
- Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)
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