Information Technology Services

VPN Connectivity Issue

Outage category: VPN

Location: All Campuses

Status: Open

Resolved Alert:

Initial Symptoms

Connection attempts using the VPN client would fail with an error message.

Root Cause Analysis

Cause

The DuoProxy talks to mesa-ldap.gmu.edu which is a VIP on the F5 that talks to the AD domain controllers. An InCommon certificate is used, and the DuoProxy was using an intermediate chain that had expired.

Resolution

Updated the chain file in/opt/duoauthproxy/conf/incommon-ssl.ca-bundle, also patched and rebooted the proxy servers.  This resolved that issue.

Prevention

Update certificate prior to expiration date.