[outages] Akamai Cert Issues today

[Sean Donelan]

On Wed, 30 Sep 2015, Jim Witherell via Outages wrote:
> e noticed SSL warnings based around Akamai's "a248.e.akamai.net" certificate
> today. NET::ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID is the most common error we're
> seeing. Can anyone comment on what may be going on? Looks like the cert was
> renewed or issued on 8/27/2015. Wonder why we are noticing the errors from
> multiple points on the internet now?

This is how Akamai has handled non-SSL customers for the last 15 years. 
It is the same error message, and the same action.  You just noticed it.

If you use https for a non-SSL customer on Akamai, you will connect to a 
Akamai server using a "default" SSL certificate for all customers on port 
443.

If  you use https for a SSL customer on Akamai, you connect to different
IP addresses listening for specific customers which return a customer 
specific SSL certificate.