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Bugzilla #1636544
Certificate Problem Report
IdenTrust: OCSP Outage
RESOLVED
FIXED
IdenTrust Services, LLC
AI Summary
IdenTrust experienced a significant OCSP outage starting on April 23, 2020, due to an unexpected spike in traffic that overwhelmed their OCSP responder. The incident was acknowledged on May 8, 2020, after reports of service disruption surfaced. IdenTrust's investigation revealed that the surge in requests peaked at 650,000 per second, leading to errors in service. The issue was resolved after a hard reboot of the affected firewall, which required on-site intervention. Enhanced monitoring has since been implemented to prevent future occurrences.
Chronology
- Significant increase in OCSP requests detected.
- Monitoring alerted IdenTrust to unusual traffic spikes.
- Incident acknowledged after community reports.
- Incident report detailing the outage submitted.
- Enhanced monitoring implemented.
Participants
Wayne Thayer
IdenTrust
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