[NeXus-committee] Fortinet has blocked www.nexusformat.org

Tue May 31 15:56:20 BST 2022

Hi Ben,

www.nexusformat.org<http://www.nexusformat.org>   is a DNS canonical name for nexusformat.github.io as you found. We look after the server for nexusformat.org and it just does a redirect to www.nexusformat.org<http://www.nexusformat.org>. which seems to be OK on non-work machines I have tried (my work machines get the same issue as Peter). The server does do virtual hosting of several site, so relies on the http header to know which site to serve (and would probably return what you see if it couldn't work that out). Is anybody else having issues with https://nexusformat.org/ not redirecting?

Freddie

From: NeXus-committee <nexus-committee-bounces at shadow.nd.rl.ac.uk> On Behalf Of Watts Benjamin (PSI) via NeXus-committee
Sent: 31 May 2022 15:42
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Subject: Re: [NeXus-committee] Fortinet has blocked www.nexusformat.org

Hi Peter,

   I think Freddie and Pete tend to know the most about the web page. I can visit https://www.nexusformat.org just fine, but https://nexusformat.org brings up a bunch of warnings and a "Fedora Webserver Test Page".

DNSchecker says that the www version belongs to Github, but the non-www version belongs to Nick Moore at the Science and Technology Facilites Council: Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. Perhaps you can ask Nick Moore what is going on?

I feel flattered that Fortinet recognised just how exciting our work is when they chose which category to put it in.

Cheers,

Ben

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Subject: [NeXus-committee] Fortinet has blocked www.nexusformat.org<http://www.nexusformat.org>

Hi all,

The SSL certificate seems dodgy according to firefox:

>From home broadband:

nexusformat.org uses an invalid security certificate.

The certificate is not trusted because it is self-signed.

Error code: MOZILLA_PKIX_ERROR_SELF_SIGNED_CERT

>From Diamond network (so Janet):

Someone could be trying to impersonate the site and you should not continue.

Web sites prove their identity via certificates. Firefox does not trust www.nexusformat.org<http://www.nexusformat.org> because its certificate issuer is unknown, the certificate is self-signed, or the server is not sending the correct intermediate certificates.

Error code: SEC_ERROR_UNKNOWN_ISSUER

Has the DNS entry for nexusformat.org been hijacked? Clicking through at home sees the usual site but from work I see:
[Graphical user interface, application, Teams    Description automatically generated]

Who's in charge of the domain name?

Best regards,
Peter

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