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Routerlogin.net digital certificate expired
I have an RBR40 that is blocking my wife's iphone7 due to an expired security certificate for routerlogin.net. All other phones work fine. I updated the Orbi firmware to the latest v2.3.5.32 hoping this would help. Apparently this has been an issue since August 2nd, 2019! I see others have had similar issues...when will this get fixed???
I spent all day troubleshooting this and finally tracked it down to this netgear issue. Please tell me what I need to do to get it resolved.
Well, I finally got back to troubleshooting this issue and discovered that her phone was set to "blocked" on the router for some reason. I changed it to "allow" and it's all good now. Not sure how it got set to "blocked". It would be nice to get a more descriptive error message to help with troubleshooting. Thanks for your help all!
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Yes, Netgear's SSL certificate has been a mess since last August.
How is this "blocking" the iPhone? Can the phone not access the internet? If you open Safari and enter http://ibm.com, does the web page not open?
Correct, the phone cannot connect to the internet using wifi. Any website it attempts to open results in a "err_ssl_protocol_error", which I was able to trace to the expired security certificate.
- Is there an option in tiny print somewhere to "ignore the warning, go to the site"?
The self-signed certificate for the admin interface (i.e. routerlogin.net) should in no way be impacting browsing to public websites, even if it's expired.
*Every* website is giving you a err_ssl_protocol_error error but only on your wife's iPhone 7?
Yes, when using the Safari browser I can trace it down to the expired certificate for routerlogin.net.
Does the same thing happen if you use Chrome for IOS?
