# Failed to validate the SSL certificate for launchpad.net:443

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/failed-to-validate-the-ssl-certificate-for-launchpad-net-443/20070>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [December 23, 2015, 1:25pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/failed-to-validate-the-ssl-certificate-for-launchpad-net-443/20070 "2015-12-23T13:25:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Ivan\_Nunes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@Ivan\_Nunes](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Ivan_Nunes)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2015, 1:25pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/failed-to-validate-the-ssl-certificate-for-launchpad-net-443/20070/1 "2015-12-23T13:25:35Z")

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Often I get this error. I wait a few hours and try again and it works.

How to solve or alleviate this problem?

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![Toshio\_Kuratomi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/41988e/32.png) [@Toshio\_Kuratomi](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Toshio_Kuratomi)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2015, 7:14am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/failed-to-validate-the-ssl-certificate-for-launchpad-net-443/20070/2 "2015-12-24T07:14:19Z")

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If it’s really about waiting some amount of time then it sounds like something in the network.

Otoh, if it’s that in one attempt you are hitting a certain host at [launchpad.net](http://launchpad.net) that we are able to verify and then hit another host that we are not able to verify then it is something else. Perhaps a misconfigured server among a set of load balanced web servers at launchpad or perhaps some of the hosts serving launchpad require sni (which ansible can only support when running on python 2.7.9 or better) while others do not.

-Toshio