# Max Retries Exceeded - Caused by SSLError(SSLZeroReturnError(6, 'TLS/SSL connection has been closed (EOF) **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Tags:** windows, rhel\ **Created:** [April 24, 2023, 3:58pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/max-retries-exceeded-caused-by-sslerror-sslzeroreturnerror-6-tls-ssl-connection-has-been-closed-eof/37921 "2023-04-24T15:58:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Paul\_Brylinski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ebca7d/32.png) [@Paul\_Brylinski](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Paul_Brylinski)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2023, 3:58pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/max-retries-exceeded-caused-by-sslerror-sslzeroreturnerror-6-tls-ssl-connection-has-been-closed-eof/37921/1 "2023-04-24T15:58:39Z")
Hello, I am having an issue connecting to a windows host through kerberos. I was using ansible 2.9.16 and RHEL 7.9 and had no issues. As I upgraded to RHEL 9, I upgraded to Ansible-Core 2.13. Winrm, kerberos were all upgraded as well. Nothing on the windows side has changed. When I run a playbook with win\_ping, it errors out saying, Max Retries Exceeded - Caused by SSLError(SSLZeroReturnError(6, ‘TLS/SSL connection has been closed (EOF) (\_ssl.c:1129)’)). Again, nothing was changed on the windows hosts. This also applies if I use credssp or basic auth as well. openssl version is 3.0.1 and uses tls1.3 to connect to the windows host. Thank you ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_Brylinski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ebca7d/32.png) [@Paul\_Brylinski](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Paul_Brylinski)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2023, 7:13pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/max-retries-exceeded-caused-by-sslerror-sslzeroreturnerror-6-tls-ssl-connection-has-been-closed-eof/37921/2 "2023-04-27T19:13:02Z")
Just to let everyone know, the inventory file was looking for the FQDN, not the IP.