usfj.mil DNSSEC Outage: 2015-05-24 to 2015-05-26

Updated: May 26, 2015

Overview

This page gives some details on the usfj.mil DNSSEC outage from May 24 to May 26, 2015. The outage lasted 2 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: 46634
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 4, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

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

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.usfj.mil. 0 IN CNAME www.dodpw.defense.gov.edgesuite.net.
www.dodpw.defense.gov.edgesuite.net. 0 IN CNAME a1603.dscb.akamai.net.
a1603.dscb.akamai.net. 20 IN A 184.51.40.8
a1603.dscb.akamai.net. 20 IN A 184.51.40.11

;; Query time: 388 msec
;; SERVER: 208.67.222.222#53(208.67.222.222)
;; WHEN: Sun May 24 13:42:34 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: 6530
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

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

;; Query time: 643 msec
;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8)
;; WHEN: Sun May 24 13:42:12 2015
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 30

dnscheck

dnscheck.iis.se archived a DNSSEC outage at 2015-05-24 13:38:26 (requires javascript).

dnscheck.labs.nic.cz archived a DNSSEC outage at 2015-05-24 13:41:30 (requires javascript).

Zonemaster

Zonemaster archived this usfj.mil DNSSEC outage.