Intermittent Website Errors

Outage category: 
Website
Location: 
All users of general VPN network
Status: 
Closed
Resolved alert: 
02/09/2023 2:05 pm

Users connected to VPN and visiting affected websites saw a 403 Forbidden error.

Initial symptoms: 

Intermittent 403 errors on websites

Duration: 
02/09/2023 1:20 pm - 02/09/2023 2:05 pm
Impact to Mason: 

Users of general VPN group visiting affected websites received 403 errors.

Affected Services: 
Web Hosting
Other Affected Services: 
Certain hosted websites
ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS
Cause: 

Vendor misconfiguration caused an outage

Resolution: 

Vendor whitelisted our IP range

Prevention: 

Vendor will ensure our IP range is whitelisted on any future configurations.

STATISTICS
Service Team: 
Web Applications & Services, Network Operations, ITS Support Center