I have run into something strange with Geekzone. This morning I received notification of a private message but when I tried to access the site I received an error. Then I tried to log in and then to contact Geekzone directly. Everything I tried that involved https produced the same error. I also couldn’t find any alternative way to report the error. Finally I was able to log in by taking an indirect route (I tried to post a message which brought up the login screen) and I was also able to read my private message, but when I tried to reply I got the same error. This is the relevant text of the error:

 

 

Unable to complete secure transaction

 

 

You tried to access the address https://www.geekzone.co.nz/login.asp, which is currently unavailable. Please make sure that the web address (URL) is correctly spelled and punctuated, then try reloading the page.

 

 

Secure connection: fatal error (1066)

 

 

https://www.geekzone.co.nz/login.asp

 

 

Unable to verify the website's identity (OCSP error).

 

 

The response from the online certificate validation (OCSP) server was too old.

 

 

This text is from my Opera browser. Can anyone explain what is going on here? At the moment everything appears to be working normally again.