[rhn-users] up2date: There was an SSL error: (104, 'Connection reset by peer')

[David M Walker <davidw datamgmt com>]

I am trying to run up2date on a new machine that has previously
been setup by our service provider. I can ssh safely to and from
this machine to anywhere on the net. It is running nntp and so the
time is correct

/usr/sbin/rhn_check -vvv
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/rhn_check", line 268, in ?
    ACTION_VERSION, Status)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/xmlrpclib.py", line 821, in __call__
    return self.__send(self.__name, args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rhn/rpclib.py", line 126, in 
_request
    verbose=self._verbose
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rhn/transports.py", line 130, 
in request
    headers, fd = req.send_http(host, handler)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rhn/transports.py", line 614, 
in send_http
    headers=self.headers)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/httplib.py", line 701, in request
    self._send_request(method, url, body, headers)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/httplib.py", line 723, in _send_request
    self.endheaders()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/httplib.py", line 695, in endheaders
    self._send_output()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/httplib.py", line 581, in _send_output
    self.send(msg)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/httplib.py", line 560, in send
    self.sock.sendall(str)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rhn/SSL.py", line 191, in write
    sent = self._connection.send(data)
  SSL.SysCallError: (104, 'Connection reset by peer')

The only thing that I can imagine is that something copied over as
part of the recovery has set (un)something that should not have been

RHN services are running:

#ps -ef | grep rhn
root      6236     1  0 20:56 ?        00:00:00 rhnsd --interval 240

I've now run out of ideas so any help gratefully received

rgds
davidw