A timestamp was expected but was not found

We are facing following message "A timestamp was expected but was not found" during codesign for following .dylib and .pkg and it cause notarization process failed.

We are facing this issue for last 3 days and we have access for timestamp.apple.com and 17.0.0.0/8 and we didn't change firewall settings. We are facing this issue randomly and not for all time(scenario is 3:1).

We tried the below command to sign the package,

codesign --verbose --deep --force --timestamp --options=runtime --sign "<CODE SIGN IDENTITY>" <TO BE SIGNED PACAKGE>

Kindly let us know how to fix this probelm.

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Based on some great bug reports filed by folks on this thread, the team responsible for the timestamp server was able to track down and fix what they believe is the root cause of this problem. So, everything should be all good now (-:

If you see this problem crop up again (and we’re still investigating why it wasn’t detected by our own internal systems) please file a bug report and then post your bug number here.

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Faced the same problem. Nothing changed on our CI machine, but the build stopped working with codesign "a timestamp was expected but was not found" error. wrote to the feedback assistant - FB9288985

call traceroute timestamp.apple.com gives:

traceroute to timestamp.pki-apple.com.akadns.net (17.179.249.1), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
 1  188.128.25.25 (188.128.25.25)  0.718 ms  0.360 ms  0.547 ms
 2  5.143.233.1 (5.143.233.1)  1.541 ms  1.637 ms  1.541 ms
 3  87.226.174.241 (87.226.174.241)  1.918 ms  1.715 ms  1.627 ms
 4  * * 188.128.126.81 (188.128.126.81)  43.306 ms
 5  17.1.168.136 (17.1.168.136)  48.196 ms  36.598 ms  57.129 ms
 6  17.0.12.112 (17.0.12.112)  228.237 ms  218.270 ms
    17.0.12.116 (17.0.12.116)  222.642 ms
 7  17.1.3.243 (17.1.3.243)  218.001 ms  210.820 ms  219.386 ms
 8  17.1.3.240 (17.1.3.240)  223.942 ms
    17.1.3.242 (17.1.3.242)  211.452 ms  219.917 ms
 9  17.1.2.171 (17.1.2.171)  230.444 ms
    17.1.2.179 (17.1.2.179)  219.296 ms  226.349 ms
10  17.1.2.176 (17.1.2.176)  219.132 ms  212.270 ms  219.311 ms
11  17.1.0.119 (17.1.0.119)  220.040 ms
    17.1.0.113 (17.1.0.113)  211.403 ms  218.593 ms
12  17.0.8.35 (17.0.8.35)  236.001 ms  210.848 ms  224.461 ms
13  * * *
14  17.0.13.205 (17.0.13.205)  225.599 ms
    17.1.1.35 (17.1.1.35)  230.321 ms
    17.0.13.205 (17.0.13.205)  212.251 ms
15  * * *
16  * * *
17  * * *
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Today faced this problem on CI machine. Where is no changes in configuration. From time to time codesign failed with "a timestamp was expected but was not found". Wrote request in feedback assistant FB9290141.

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Experiencing this in Hungary again, too. As before, not on every machine.

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I Faced same problem from few days ago in Japan. I wrote to feedback assistant FB9282952.

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I'm actively facing this issue and cannot codesign any of my builds on CI. This is a major problem for us.

https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/687788

Created a ticket in Feedback Assistant, FB9493987.

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Paging @eskimo? 🙏

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Created a ticket in Feedback Assistant, FB9493987.

I’ll respond on your new thread.

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Quinn “The Eskimo!” @ Developer Technical Support @ Apple
let myEmail = "eskimo" + "1" + "@" + "apple.com"

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