usfj.mil DNSSEC Outage: 2015-05-13 to 2015-05-14

Updated: May 14, 2015

Overview

This page gives some details on the usfj.mil DNSSEC outage from late May 13, 2015 to early May 14, 2015.

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: 11862
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 4, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

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

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.usfj.mil. 4599 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: 351 msec
;; SERVER: 208.67.222.222#53(208.67.222.222)
;; WHEN: Thu May 14 02:09:03 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: 6749
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

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

;; Query time: 339 msec
;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8)
;; WHEN: Thu May 14 02:09:20 2015
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 30

dnscheck

dnscheck.iis.se archived a DNSSEC outage ati 2015-05-13 18:39:43 (requires javascript).

dnscheck.labs.nic.cz archived a DNSSEC outage at 2015-05-13 18:40:19 (requires javascript).

Zonemaster

Zonemaster archived this usfj.mil DNSSEC outage.