6/8/22’s Multi-Continent IC Outage - Are Boundary Nodes the top attack vector for the IC?

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Update:

@martin_DFN1 has posted an incident retrospective here:

North Atlantic Region boundary node outage Incident Retrospective - Wednesday Jun 8, 2022

Summary On June 8, 2022 two users on the developer forum reported being unable to access the IC ( “Internal Server Error. Failed to fetch response: TypeError: Failed to fetch”). DFINITY engineers looked at the logs of the boundary node (BN) machines and found that the Marseille BN was down, and on other machines the filesystems containing the logs were close to overflowing. DFINITY Engineers reproduced the errors by filling the file system. The overflow was caused by a Journalbeat bug JB-2362…