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by andygambles 4800 days ago
Usually the CDN will have a single certificate which then has multiple SAN entries. What can happen depending on the size of the CDN is it can take a long time for the SSL to be added to the SAN entries on all the edge servers. So if a site just starts moving to a CDN they sometimes jump the gun and instead of waiting for all the edge servers to have the SSL they just change DNS records.

You then have a scenario where the DNS is waiting to propagate and the SSL is still propagating around the CDN. Hence you get soem users without a problem, some with and it eventually all clears itself up.