--As of July 11, 2014 3:18:10 PM -0400, J Kibler via Outages is alleged to have said:
It's very possible that the SSL cert the Apple servers use has expired and the underlying client application lacks proper error handling / display to handle this situation (e.g. popping up a UI telling the user that the comm protocol failed due to SSL library errors, and displaying that error result). You might be surprised how often this happens (companies not monitoring/tracking SSL cert expiry dates) -- it's extremely common.
Sigh... Went back and tried pcap on a refresh several times, and got a ton of out of order and duplicate packets every time, followed by a fail like previous. I never saw the certificate but I did see several "Encrypted Alert" messages that Wireshark would not further detail.
Jeremy, I will send you the small pcap off list if you don't mind, and maybe you can decipher what is going on.
--As for the rest, it is mine. Possibly relevant: Apple released a new version of the iTunes client yesterday, to support some back-end features. (Movie extras - obviously not directly related, but it means there were changes on both ends yesterday.) Daniel T. Staal --------------------------------------------------------------- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of local copyright law. ---------------------------------------------------------------