Security Certificate Issue
July 01, 2021 12:22 p.m.Outage category:
Website
Location:
Specific Drupal based websites
Status:
Closed
Resolved alert:
07/01/2021 12:06 pm
Users received a certificate expired or domain mismatch error for select Drupal sites behind firewall
Initial symptoms:
Customers received SSL errors when trying to reach certain websites.
Duration:
07/01/2021 9:50 am - 07/01/2021 12:06 pm
Impact to Mason:
Website visitors could not reach certain websites.
Affected Services:
Web Hosting
ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS
Cause:
Vendor SSL certificate expiration
Resolution:
An emergency ticket was opened with firewall vendor. They removed the custom SSL cert and reverted sites to use their built-in, auto-renewing certificate.
Prevention:
Vendor has issued new certs that auto-renew and is proactively searching for other websites in our account that may encounter this issue.
STATISTICS
Service Team:
WAS