secure64.com DNSSEC Outage: 2016-07-26 to 2016-07-27

Updated: July 27, 2016

Overview

This page gives some details on the secure64.com DNSSEC outage from July 26 to July 27, 2016. Secure64 sells DNS and DNSSEC products.

Timeline / DNSViz

DNSSEC Debugger

Unlike DNSViz, Verisign's DNSSEC Debugger doesn't archive results, so here's a screenshot of my web browser's output from July 26, 2016:

July 26, 2016 secure64.com DNSSEC outage

OpenDNS & Google Public DNS

OpenDNS does not support DNSSEC, instead supporting DNSCurve. Google Public DNS currently supports only DNSSEC, and thus, Google's users saw SERVFAIL for queries under secure64.com during this outage.

$ dig secure64.com @resolver1.opendns.com.

; <<>> DiG 9.4.2-P2 <<>> secure64.com @resolver1.opendns.com.
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 37947
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;secure64.com. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
secure64.com. 3543 IN A 162.244.68.26

;; Query time: 0 msec
;; SERVER: 208.67.222.222#53(208.67.222.222)
;; WHEN: Tue Jul 26 23:41:29 2016
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 46

With Google Public DNS, because of DNSSEC, queries fail:

$ dig +dnssec secure64.com @8.8.8.8

; <<>> DiG 9.4.2-P2 <<>> +dnssec secure64.com @8.8.8.8
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 33618
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags: do; udp: 512
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;secure64.com. IN A

;; Query time: 268 msec
;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8)
;; WHEN: Tue Jul 26 23:41:29 2016
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 41

dnscheck

dnscheck.labs.nic.cz shows expired RRSIGs (requires javascript).

dnscheck.iis.se shows expired RRSIGs (requires javascript).

Zonemaster

zonemaster.net archived "Delegation from parent to child is not properly signed (signature: DNSSEC signature has expired)."

zonemaster.fr archived "Delegation from parent to child is not properly signed (signature: DNSSEC signature has expired)."

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