[scripts-announce] Problems with some scripts sites over the weekend

[Geoffrey Thomas]

Hi,

Over the weekend we had some issues with content for scripts.mit.edu 
virtual hosts/CNAMEs (*.mit.edu sites, only not *.scripts.mit.edu sites) 
that had not requested a SSL server certificate assigned to them. The 
issue mostly affected these sites when accessed over SSL on port 444.

First, for a couple of minutes on Friday night, I made a change to one of 
our web servers that accidentally caused requests to all such sites to 
receive the content for axo.mit.edu (the alphabetically first vhost with 
its own certificate). That change did not reach the other server, and the 
misdirection was fixed as soon as I realized my mistake.

However, this only fixed http and https, and did not take effect for port 
:444. This was corrected earlier today after one of our users reported it 
while testing a site that he had requested an SSL certificate for.

I sincerely apologize for any trouble this may have caused. Hopefully this 
did not affect many sites, because those intending to use SSL should have 
a certificate, and sites with certificates installed were not affected.

-- 
Geoffrey Thomas
SIPB scripts team
scripts at mit.edu