UK Federation contact issues

[Alex Stuart]

I've replied to Dave off-list.

Just for the record, there are no Access Control Lists on the UK
federation Metadata Publication Service HTTP download.

Alex

On 12/10/2015 17:02, Dave Perry wrote:
> To anyone on this list who works at the UK federation and gets this.
> 
>  
> 
> I have tried emailing your service@ address, and had a bounceback
> message (presumably from our email server?) saying it was still trying
> to deliver it – and no email to say ‘here is your call number’ so
> assuming it hasn’t got through at the time of writing this.
> 
> Our new IdP’s external address (195.195.244.67) seems to be blocked from
> connecting to download the metadata, and we need this remedying asap
> please. This is affecting our service now so no one can sign in to anything.
> 
>  
> 
> We have tried the test that Matthew sent me last week (time curl –sv
> http://metadata.ukfederation.org.uk/ukfederation-metadata.xml ) and that
> is bombing out after about 6 minutes.
> 
>  
> 
> The .xml file from the last successful attempt is on the server, but the
> IdP boot process takes a very long time (minutes) to decide it’s given
> up on downloading the new one before it does anything with it. Then it
> still fails to work with any service providers anyway.
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Dave
> 
>  
> 
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Alex Stuart
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