[SR-Users] What does "tls.reload" actually do?

Olle E. Johansson oej at edvina.net
Mon Aug 30 14:27:36 CEST 2021



> On 30 Aug 2021, at 14:23, Daniel-Constantin Mierla <miconda at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Actually the active tls connections are not closed (and thus not
> re-opened) on tls.reload. It should use the new tls.cfg and
> corresponding certs only for the new connections. Old connections should
> not affected by reload.
Cool. Thank you for that clarification.

/O
> 
> Cheers,
> Daniel
> 
> On 30.08.21 13:57, Olle E. Johansson wrote:
>> For the archives:
>> 
>> If you have a configuration file for your tls connections (not kamailio.cfg modparams) I believe the TLS module will reopen connections at tls.reload. If you update the certificates the new ones will be active after reload. This does not happen if you use modparams. Meaning if you use letsencrypt, your hook to reload with new certs is tls.reload.
>> This propably means that open connections will be closed.
>> 
>> I don’t know if connections are affected if you use modparams. 
>> /O
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On 30 Aug 2021, at 13:39, Sebastian Damm <sdamm at pascom.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I suppose, it happens for real connections, too. But since it's so sporadically, I guess, clients just retry and then it works.
>>> 
>>> The operating system is an Ubuntu 18.04 (getting replaced by Ubuntu 20.04 soon), thus it's running with libssl 1.1.1.
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> Sebastian
>>> 
>>> ----- Ursprüngliche Mail -----
>>> Von: "miconda" <miconda at gmail.com>
>>> An: "sr-users" <sr-users at lists.kamailio.org>, "Sebastian Damm" <sdamm at pascom.net>
>>> Gesendet: Montag, 30. August 2021 13:28:04
>>> Betreff: Re: [SR-Users] What does "tls.reload" actually do?
>>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> does it happen only for connections done by the monitoring system? Or
>>> also for the connections tried from the usual sip phones?
>>> 
>>> What is the operating system and libssl version?
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> Daniel
>>> 
>>> On 30.08.21 11:57, Sebastian Damm wrote:
>>>> Hi Henning,
>>>> 
>>>> unfortunately, I don't have a host without traffic showing the same behavior. Our dev hosts usually don't run long enough. (And they usually don't get monitored.)
>>>> 
>>>> The "sporadically" meant, that it can take sometimes up to one week until it occurs on the same host again. And yes, some hosts have a bit more traffic than others, I suppose that's why it occurs earlier on some hosts, later on others.
>>>> 
>>>> I guess we have to deploy updates more often. ;)
>>>> 
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Sebastian
>>>> 
>>>> ----- Ursprüngliche Mail -----
>>>> Von: "Henning Westerholt" <hw at skalatan.de>
>>>> An: "sr-users" <sr-users at lists.kamailio.org>
>>>> CC: "Sebastian Damm" <sdamm at pascom.net>
>>>> Gesendet: Dienstag, 24. August 2021 14:21:31
>>>> Betreff: RE: What does "tls.reload" actually do?
>>>> 
>>>> Hello Sebastian,
>>>> 
>>>> on a first look to the code the tls.reload does similar operations as done during normal server startup, like
>>>> - load configuration
>>>> - fixing domains
>>>> - check sockets
>>>> 
>>>> If the error only happens sporadic and, on some servers, it is probably either an error that only occurs in specific circumstances unrelated to kamailio, or some internal corruption topic in the module/server.
>>>> 
>>>> Do you see it also on e.g., test systems without any real load? Is there a difference between the systems in kind of load, and this maybe also causes some difference when the error occurs?
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> 
>>>> Henning
>>>> 
>>>> -- 
>>>> Henning Westerholt - https://skalatan.de/blog/
>>>> Kamailio services - https://gilawa.com 
>>>> 
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: sr-users <sr-users-bounces at lists.kamailio.org> On Behalf Of Sebastian Damm
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2021 1:58 PM
>>>> To: sr-users <sr-users at lists.kamailio.org>
>>>> Subject: [SR-Users] What does "tls.reload" actually do?
>>>> 
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> I noticed a strange behavior on some of our proxy servers, all running Kamailio 5.3.8. After running for some time (weeks), our monitoring system sporadically starts reporting errors. The check connects via tls and registers to an Asterisk behind the proxy server. When this happens, the Kamailio log shows the following line:
>>>> 
>>>> ERROR: tls [tls_util.h:42]: tls_err_ret(): TLS accept:error:1409441B:SSL routines:ssl3_read_bytes:tlsv1 alert decrypt error
>>>> 
>>>> When restarting Kamailio, the problem goes away only to come back after some weeks uptime again.
>>>> 
>>>> On one host, I tried to find something using kamcmd, and I don't know why but I also issued "tls.reload". And from that point, the monitoring system has not reported the system as faulty anymore. I repeated the same thing on other hosts when the problem occured there, all with the same result. "tls.reload" helps. But from the documentation, I don't know why.
>>>> 
>>>> Does anybody have an explanation for it?
>>>> 
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Sebastian
>>>> 
>>>> 
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