Media downloads from federated rooms running synapse no longer working

[skelemental]

I was running conduwuit federating with another server running synapse. I recently swapped docker images from conduwuit to tuwunel and this has resulted in all media downloads failing in the federated rooms since the swap.

I saw in the release notes for v1.3.0 that changes were made to unathenticated media

• Unauthenticated media fallbacks are no longer requested by default. This can still be enabled with request_legacy_media if desired.

I have attempted adding both allow_legacy_media which is the var that appears in the config file example, and request_legacy_media as indicated in the release notes, but neither seems to have any effect on my homeserver's ability to request and cache media from the federated server. There are no logs that appear at INFO or above level indicating any failures with grabbing the media.

[jevolk]

Do any other combinations of server instances have or don't have the same problems? What version is the synapse server? Is another Synapse server able to request authenticated or unauthenticated media from it? Are you able to request from another Synapse? What about to and from another Tuwunel?

[skelemental]

sorry for taking so long to respond here. I figured out what was going on (expired cert on the server I was federating to). Man the logs really gave no indication of this behavior. I think what happened was everything was fine until I restarted my instance to do the image switch and then stuff that was already established (rooms and the like) still kinda worked but any real new communication (media downloads, new rooms, etc) was broken. You can close this sorry for the noise.