Unable to upload or download
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Hello,
All of a sudden, starting on Sunday (I believe) I cannot download or upload anything.
The torrents just sit at 0% and says "Downloading from 0 peers"
I have used Transmission for years and I have tried qBittorrent as well with no change.
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance
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@dknowles3us said in Unable to upload or download:
Hello,
All of a sudden, starting on Sunday (I believe) I cannot download or upload anything.
The torrents just sit at 0% and says "Downloading from 0 peers"
I have used Transmission for years and I have tried qBittorrent as well with no change.
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance
Are you sure it didn't start Friday?
There is an issue - not with the site, but with many versions of Windows and MacOS - that have been installed for a while and have an OLD copy of a CA (top-level) certificate that has now expired.Read more HERE and HERE and some people think THIS ONE helps too.
To be clear about a couple of things:
- This is not a certificate error, this is a CA (Certificate Authority) expiration
- The issue is caused - in this case, at least partially - by a practice known as cross-signing... something DESIGNED to increase the likelihood that good certs will be trusted... but in this case, that approach has back-fired.
- The fix happens on YOUR END (the client-end), not the server end.
Depending on your client, you can disable SSL certificate validation (risky), or do the homework (see links above) and fix your rig. (You could also use the sledgehammer approach and re-image your system with the latest release of Windows, MacOS, or Linux! New, updated versions do not include the expired CA Cert)
Finally, this has been happening of-late because CA (Trusted Store) certs are usually issued with 10 or 20 year expirations... and, well, they're expiring!
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Thanks for the reply!
It might have started then, I am not sure.
There is no easier way of fixing this then re-installing Windows?
Not sure I can follow the other stuff...
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@dknowles3us said in Unable to upload or download:
Thanks for the reply!
It might have started then, I am not sure.
There is no easier way of fixing this then re-installing Windows?
Not sure I can follow the other stuff...
You can disable the SSL checking...
NOTE: Even if you re-install Windows, whether that would fix you might well depend on WHICH version of Windows you re-install with! (Reinstall with 1909 and you LIKELY would have the same issue!)
Maybe call a computer repair shop around you and get online help? (Make sure they know what the issue is before you let them try to fix it!)
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@dknowles3us this issue is solved by now. we just installed a new certificate
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Thank you!
Everything works now.
