usfj.mil DNSSEC Outage: 2015-04-30

Updated: May 4, 2015

Overview

This page gives some details on the usfj.mil DNSSEC outage on April 30, 2015. The outage lasted a little over 3 days.

Timeline / DNSViz

OpenDNS and Google Public DNS

OpenDNS does not support DNSSEC, instead supporting DNSCurve. Among other advantages, DNSCurve is immune to DNSSEC outages. Google Public DNS currently supports only DNSSEC, and thus, Google's users saw SERVFAIL for queries under usfj.mil during this outage.

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: 22728
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 4, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

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

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.usfj.mil. 7200 IN CNAME www.dodpw.defense.gov.edgesuite.net.
www.dodpw.defense.gov.edgesuite.net. 300 IN CNAME a1603.dscb.akamai.net.
a1603.dscb.akamai.net. 20 IN A 23.212.53.223
a1603.dscb.akamai.net. 20 IN A 23.212.53.182

;; Query time: 155 msec
;; SERVER: 208.67.222.222#53(208.67.222.222)
;; WHEN: Thu Apr 30 22:32:19 2015
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 143


With Google Public DNS, with DNSSEC, queries fail:

$ 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: 51563
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

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

;; Query time: 279 msec
;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8)
;; WHEN: Thu Apr 30 22:32:30 2015
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 30

dnscheck

dnscheck.iis.se archived a DNSSEC outage at 2015-04-30 17:40:44 (requires javascript).

dnscheck.labs.nic.cz archived a DNSSEC outage at 2015-04-30 17:41:18 (requires javascript).

Zonemaster

Zonemaster archived this usfj.mil DNSSEC outage.