usfj.mil DNSSEC Outage: 2015-12-05 to 2015-12-07

Updated: December 7, 2015

Overview

This page gives some details on the usfj.mil DNSSEC outage from December 5 to December 7, 2015. It lasted approximately 51 hours and was the 21st DNSSEC outage of the year for usfj.mil.

Timeline / DNSViz

OpenDNS and 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: 55760
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 4, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

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

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.usfj.mil. 3568 IN CNAME www.dodpw.defense.gov.edgesuite.net.
www.dodpw.defense.gov.edgesuite.net. 292 IN CNAME a1603.dscb.akamai.net.
a1603.dscb.akamai.net. 20 IN A 216.206.30.43
a1603.dscb.akamai.net. 20 IN A 216.206.30.25

;; Query time: 310 msec
;; SERVER: 208.67.222.222#53(208.67.222.222)
;; WHEN: Sat Dec 5 16:29:58 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: 18398
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

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

;; Query time: 685 msec
;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8)
;; WHEN: Sat Dec 5 16:30:03 2015
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 30

dnscheck

dnscheck.labs.nic.cz archived a DNSSEC outage at 2015-12-05 16:29:30 (requires javascript).

dnscheck.iis.se archived a DNSSEC outage at 2015-12-05 16:29:14 (requires javascript).

Zonemaster

Zonemaster archived this usfj.mil DNSSEC outage.