usfj.mil DNSSEC Outage: 2015-01-03 to 2015-01-07

Updated: January 7, 2015

Overview

This page gives some details on the usfj.mil DNSSEC outage from January 3 to January 7, 2015. The outage lasted approximately 94 hours.

Timeline / DNSViz

Verisign's DNSSEC Debugger

Here's a screenshot I took on January 3, 2015, of the DNSSEC Debugger output:

usfj.mil DNSSEC outage January 4, 2015

OpenDNS vs. Google Public DNS

While Google Public DNS supports DNSSEC, OpenDNS supports the superior DNSCurve, which is (among other advantages) immune to DNSSEC failures. During this outage, Google failed to resolve names under usfj.mil while OpenDNS worked normally.

With OpenDNS, queries succeed:

$ dig www.usfj.mil. @resolver1.opendns.com

; <<>> DiG 9.4.2-P2 <<>> www.usfj.mil. @resolver1.opendns.com
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 15882
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.usfj.mil. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.usfj.mil. 3238 IN A 215.1.46.23

;; Query time: 250 msec
;; SERVER: 208.67.222.222#53(208.67.222.222)
;; WHEN: Sun Jan 4 23:09:57 2015
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 46

$ dig www.usfj.mil. @8.8.8.8

; <<>> DiG 9.4.2-P2 <<>> www.usfj.mil. @8.8.8.8
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 41676
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.usfj.mil. IN A

;; Query time: 578 msec
;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8)
;; WHEN: Sun Jan 4 23:10:18 2015
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 30

Logfile examples