fbi.gov DNSSEC Outage: 2014-12-03

Updated: December 4, 2014

Overview

This page gives some details on the fbi.gov DNSSEC outage of December 3, 2014.

First spotted by NIST

NIST has a website called had-pilot.com and an associated Twitter feed, @hadmonitor. On December 3, the twitter account posted "ERROR: http://FBI.GOV appears #DNSSEC BOGUS. Possible cause: Bad KSK rollover"

DNSViz timeline

• 2014-12-03 02:05:17 UTC: signed, not currently failing
• 2014-12-03 11:19:42 UTC: unsigned, outage debris
• 2014-12-03 12:18:00 UTC: unsigned, fixed
• 2014-12-03 16:05:33 UTC: still unsigned, fixed
• 2014-12-03 20:27:25 UTC: re-signed