*.au (Australia) DNSSEC Outage: 2023-09-18

Date: September 18, 2023

Overview

This page gives some details on the *.au DNSSEC outage of September 18, 2023. Much of Australia's domains are 3rd level such as example.com.au, and the DS records to com.au, net.au, etc. were broken. Therefore, *.au had a DNSSEC outage.

Timeline / DNSViz

2023-09-18 00:11:14 UTC — org.au Expired DS RRSIG
2023-09-18 00:21:05 UTC — net.au Expired DS RRSIG
2023-09-18 00:22:24 UTC — com.au Expired DS RRSIG
2023-09-18 00:22:58 UTC — com.au Expired DS RRSIG
2023-09-18 00:27:56 UTC — asn.au Expired DS RRSIG
2023-09-18 00:33:47 UTC — gov.au Expired DS RRSIG
2023-09-18 00:34:46 UTC — id.au Expired DS RRSIG
2023-09-18 00:46:06 UTC — com.au Expired DS RRSIG
2023-09-18 00:47:29 UTC — edu.au Expired DS RRSIG
2023-09-18 00:48:49 UTC — net.au Expired DS RRSIG
2023-09-18 00:58:48 UTC — net.au DNSSEC outage over
2023-09-18 01:01:33 UTC — gov.au DNSSEC outage over
2023-09-18 01:04:50 UTC — google.com.au broken parent DNSSEC
2023-09-18 01:07:18 UTC — com.au DNSSEC outage over
2023-09-18 03:51:08 UTC — edu.au DNSSEC outage over
2023-09-18 04:35:12 UTC — org.au DNSSEC outage over

Please note that although google.com.au does NOT use DNSSEC, it still suffered a DNSSEC outage due to the parent DNSSEC outage in com.au.

NANOG mailing list

This DNSSEC outage in com.au was discussed on the NANOG mailing list in the thread .com.au RRSIG Expired.