Unable to locate beginning of ActivationInfo

[zasran]

Trying with new iPad (model A1396), getting the following error:

Unable to locate beginning of ActivationInfo
Unable to fetch activation request

Strace reveals that it gets no response from albert.apple.com:443:

strace -s 500 ./src/ideviceactivate -u xxx -e xxx

...
send(5, "CONNECT albert.apple.com:443 HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: albert.apple.com:443\r\nUser-Agent: iTunes/9.1 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5.6)\r\nProxy-Connection: Keep-Alive\r\nX-Apple-Tz: -14400\r\nX-Apple-Store-Front: 143441-1\r\n\r\n", 212, MSG_NOSIGNAL) = 212
clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {9426, 439964455}) = 0
clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {9426, 440022324}) = 0
clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {9426, 440065415}) = 0
poll([{fd=5, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI|POLLRDNORM|POLLRDBAND}], 1, 1000) = 1 ([{fd=5, revents=POLLIN|POLLRDNORM}])
recv(5, "", 16384, 0) = 0
clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {9426, 440222203}) = 0
time(NULL) = 1325634514
close(5) = 0
clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {9426, 440365787}) = 0
write(2, "Unable to locate beginning of ActivationInfo\n", 45Unable to locate beginning of ActivationInfo
) = 45

Let me know if I can provide more info. Not sure what the command line should be so maybe that's a problem?