[clue-tech] CAcert issues

[Dirk Huizenga]

I have had problems getting to the www.cacert.org web site for a while 
and decided to look into it.  I was getting "www.cacert.org could not 
found.  Please check the name and try again." messages from Firefox.  
After seeing some other links to their wiki, I found their domain name 
(cacert.org) working.  After playing with Dig and finding their IP 
address, I still had problems accessing the site in Firefox.  I finally 
added their host name and IP (202.87.16.201) to my hosts file and can 
access their web site.

Has anyone else seen this problem?  Is this some conspiracy to block 
free SSL certificates?  Does anyone use their certificates? 

I understand that these free certs can be a problem, because they do not 
have a root certificate in most browsers.  And I have seen a request for 
Mozilla (Firefox) to block the ability to add root certificates 
(currently marked WONTFIX) that would prevent CAcert's certificates from 
validating.  Just looking into using this for a web site.

Dirk.