usfj.mil DNSSEC Outage: 2015-09-13 to 2015-09-18

Updated: September 18, 2015

Overview

This page gives some details on the usfj.mil DNSSEC outage from September 13, 2015 to September 18, 2015. This outage lasted nearly 5 days.

Timeline / DNSViz

OpenDNS & Google Public DNS

OpenDNS does not support DNSSEC, instead supporting DNSCurve. 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: 23088
;; 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 23.218.157.106
a1603.dscb.akamai.net. 20 IN A 23.218.157.59

;; Query time: 182 msec
;; SERVER: 208.67.222.222#53(208.67.222.222)
;; WHEN: Sun Sep 13 16:11:02 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: 48586
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

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

;; Query time: 341 msec
;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8)
;; WHEN: Sun Sep 13 16:11:07 2015
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 30

dnscheck

dnscheck.labs.nic.cz archived a DNSSEC outage at 2015-09-13 16:10:07 (requires javascript).

dnscheck.iis.se archived a DNSSEC outage at 2015-09-13 16:09:31 (requires javascript).

Zonemaster

Zonemaster archived this usfj.mil DNSSEC outage.