Blocked from www.ads-software.com

Is your WordPress installation asking you to provide FTP credentials prior to installing any plugin?

There are many reasons why this connection fails and it is a fairly common problem. Are you on a hosting company setup or is this a configuration you have set up on a local box acting as a server? If this is a hosting company, have you tried contacting your hosting company for support?

As a plan B alternative, you can always install plugins manually.

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Managing_Plugins#Manual_Plugin_Installation

Hi Bob,

Thanks for the reply. No, all sites are already installed, and prior to this all plugins to be updated or installed did not require FTP credentials.

I’m not concerned about “installing” plugins at this time as they can still be completed manually using a FTP client. But this is not ideal. The only change was replacing the namesever/DNS listed (/etc/resolv.conf and ifcfg-eth) as our ISP replaced their servers.

This is a server with a dedicated connection and static IP’s. (Not home brew) Listed in the original post, the server will ping to all websites and IP’s fine with exception to downloads.www.ads-software.com, www.ads-software.com. With the firewall temporarily disabled (Wide open), there is no change so I can’t believe it to be any sort of configuration error with the server.

The IP in question is not blacklisted anywhere, and cannot be changed. However, without it being able to cURL or wget from www.ads-software.com, leaves it pretty useless.

Check your version of openSSL — if you’re using an old one, you may not be able to connect to the WP download servers. My CentOS 6 machine us using openssl-1.0.1e-57.el6.x86_64.

Hi Steve,

openssl-devel-1.0.1e-57.el6.x86_64 is installed. That would make sense, getting a little closer but still no change.

Try “sudo yum install openssl”

Done, latest version already installed.

Fudge. OK, that’s not it, I guess.

What do you see with

wget -dv https://www.ads-software.com/latest.tar.gz

I see this

URI encoding = ‘UTF-8’
Converted file name 'latest.tar.gz' (UTF-8) -> 'latest.tar.gz' (UTF-8)
Converted file name 'latest.tar.gz' (UTF-8) -> 'latest.tar.gz' (UTF-8)
--2017-07-24 17:56:32--  https://www.ads-software.com/latest.tar.gz
Resolving www.ads-software.com (www.ads-software.com)... 66.155.40.249, 66.155.40.250
Caching www.ads-software.com => 66.155.40.249 66.155.40.250
Connecting to www.ads-software.com (www.ads-software.com)|66.155.40.249|:443... connected.
Created socket 3.
Releasing 0x00000000017edfa0 (new refcount 1).
Initiating SSL handshake.
Handshake successful; connected socket 3 to SSL handle 0x0000000001832e70
certificate:
  subject: /OU=Domain Control Validated/CN=*.www.ads-software.com
  issuer:  /C=US/ST=Arizona/L=Scottsdale/O=GoDaddy.com, Inc./OU=https://certs.godaddy.com/repository//CN=Go Daddy Secure Certificate Authority - G2
X509 certificate successfully verified and matches host www.ads-software.com

---request begin---
GET /latest.tar.gz HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: Wget/1.14 (linux-gnu)
Accept: */*
Host: www.ads-software.com
Connection: Keep-Alive

---request end---
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 
---response begin---
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2017 22:56:32 GMT
Content-Type: application/octet-stream
Content-Length: 8169865
Connection: keep-alive
Cache-control: private
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=wordpress-4.8.tar.gz
Last-Modified: Thu, 08 Jun 2017 14:30:14 GMT
X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
Content-MD5: b91248a7220a7fb1ca293c3a0ec8db6c
X-nc: HIT lax 249
Accept-Ranges: bytes

---response end---
200 OK
Registered socket 3 for persistent reuse.
Length: 8169865 (7.8M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘latest.tar.gz.1’

100%[======================================>] 8,169,865   7.33MB/s   in 1.1s   

2017-07-24 17:56:34 (7.33 MB/s) - ‘latest.tar.gz.1’ saved [8169865/8169865]

wget -dv https://www.ads-software.com/latest.tar.gz produces the following:

Setting --verbose (verbose) to 1
DEBUG output created by Wget 1.12 on linux-gnu.

--2017-07-24 17:02:59--  https://www.ads-software.com/latest.tar.gz
Resolving www.ads-software.com... 66.155.40.250, 66.155.40.249
Caching www.ads-software.com => 66.155.40.250 66.155.40.249
Connecting to www.ads-software.com|66.155.40.250|:443... Closed fd 3
failed: Connection timed out.
Connecting to www.ads-software.com|66.155.40.249|:443... Closed fd 3
failed: Connection timed out.
Releasing 0x0000000001b4c6e0 (new refcount 1).
Retrying.

--2017-07-24 17:03:30--  (try: 2)  https://www.ads-software.com/latest.tar.gz
Found www.ads-software.com in host_name_addresses_map (0x1b4c6e0)
Connecting to www.ads-software.com|66.155.40.250|:443... Closed fd 3
failed: Connection timed out.
Connecting to www.ads-software.com|66.155.40.249|:443... Closed fd 3
failed: Connection timed out.
Releasing 0x0000000001b4c6e0 (new refcount 1).
Retrying.

Doing this with any of the other servers (Same connection, different IP, set of 5 IP’s used) works fine.

What’s the IP address for your server?

> “Wget 1.12”

That version is pretty much outdated and cannot talk to modern servers via SSL connections.

Upgrade your wget version to something more recent. 1.19 is the latest, but anything better than 1.12 will probably work. Version 1.12 is eight years old now.

Similarly, make sure you’re using the latest version of curl. My C6 box can successfully connect to www.ads-software.com and download wordpress using curl 7.19.7

IP is 96.53.101.45.
I updated wget to version 1.19 and cURL to 7.54.1 using city-fan.repo.

Tested wget, no change still times out.
Test cURL, same thing, connection timed out.

Any further progress with checking on the specified IP address? I have checked through everything I can possibly search through on the server and cannot find anything that could be blocking it.

With nothing changed since the above replies, the server is now able to access www.ads-software.com. I believe that my original assumption that the one IP used, was blocked, and is now unblocked by www.ads-software.com. It would be nice to know why it was, but regardless, I am happy that the websites are able to update and install plugins as normal.

Thanks.

Hello,

I’m back once again with the same IP having connection timed out to planet.www.ads-software.com. Checked blacklist reports and do not see any issues. Any help is appreciated.
Thanks.