mongodump and mongorestore with SSL

Question

Getting mongodump and mongorestore work with security quite troublesome.

I have mongod v3.4.1 with requireSSL running at 192.168.99.100. It is IP address of VirtualBox docker machine running on my Windows. It is just for testing of-cause.

The instance already configured to use TLS/SSL both server and client signed with the same CA. I use the IP address for mongod Common Name to allow hostname validation. The authentication already enabled to accept my client certificate.

So everything is working. I can connect to it like this:

mongo --ssl --host 192.168.99.100 --sslCAFile rootCA.pem --sslPEMKeyFile me.pem

but now I can't get both mongodump and mongorestore working:

mongodump --ssl --host 192.168.99.100 --sslCAFile rootCA.pem --sslPEMKeyFile me.pem -d olddb
mongorestore --ssl --host 192.168.99.100 --sslCAFile rootCA.pem --sslPEMKeyFile me.pem -d newdb --dir=dump/olddb

Both return this error:

2017-01-13T04:28:03.881+0800    Failed: error connecting to db server: no reachable servers, openssl error: Host validation error

I have been trying to turn off client certificate, use username/password but still did not work. I need to remove the SSL in order to make it work.

That means I can only use preferSSL in production. There is no way to bypass SSL in localhost if I stick with requireSSL.

Anyone getting the same error? Is it a known issue?

Answer 1

Add this option to the command-line:

--sslAllowInvalidHostnames

Full connection sample:

mongo --host 192.168.99.100 --username luke --password skywalker --authenticationDatabase admin --ssl --sslCAFile rootCA.pem --sslPEMKeyFile me.pem --sslAllowInvalidHostnames