Case of the Disappearing Packets
Once upon a time an innocent guy who had inherited the VPN infrastructure had been bugged enough by a new joinee whose VPN was throwing tantrums. Deferring it for a day, he finally managed to start digging.
If natural disasters across the country were not weird enough, now one specific call to azure docdb was failing with a TLS handshake failure through the VPN for only ONE guy out of 100+.
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