usfj.mil DNSSEC Outage: 2015-06-20 to 2015-06-22

Updated: June 22, 2015

Overview

This page gives some details on the usfj.mil DNSSEC outage from June 20 through June 21, 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:

$ drill -D www.usfj.mil. @resolver1.opendns.com.
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, rcode: NOERROR, id: 58215
;; 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 23.212.53.182
a1603.dscb.akamai.net. 20 IN A 23.212.53.223

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:

;; Query time: 299 msec
;; EDNS: version 0; flags: ; udp: 4096
;; SERVER: 208.67.222.222
;; WHEN: Sun Jun 21 01:28:21 2015
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 154

With Google Public DNS, with DNSSEC, queries fail:

$ drill -D www.usfj.mil. @8.8.8.8
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, rcode: SERVFAIL, id: 38008
;; flags: qr rd ra ; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;; www.usfj.mil. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:

;; Query time: 487 msec
;; EDNS: version 0; flags: do ; udp: 512
;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8
;; WHEN: Sun Jun 21 01:28:34 2015
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 41

dnscheck

dnscheck.iis.se archived a DNSSEC outage at 2015-06-21 01:24:57 (requires javascript).

dnscheck.labs.nic.cz archived a DNSSEC outage at 2015-06-21 01:25:52 (requires javascript).

zonemaster

zonemaster archived this usfj.mil DNSSEC outage.

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