# \[IGN-407\]Brief Network/VPN Outages causing designer projects to become invalidated?

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ign-407-brief-network-vpn-outages-causing-designer-projects-to-become-invalidated/59428>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [May 10, 2022, 8:15pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ign-407-brief-network-vpn-outages-causing-designer-projects-to-become-invalidated/59428 "2022-05-10T20:15:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2022, 8:41pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ign-407-brief-network-vpn-outages-causing-designer-projects-to-become-invalidated/59428/2 "2022-05-10T20:41:38Z")

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This is basically a bug (I’ve added this thread to our internal tracker).  
As a bandaid, apparently setting `sessiontimeout.designer` to something higher than the default 60 (via `ignition.conf` parameter in the `wrapper.java.additional` area) _might_ help.

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