usfj.mil DNSSEC Outage: 2015-12-14 to 2015-12-16

Updated: December 16, 2015

Overview

This page gives some details on the usfj.mil DNSSEC outage from December 14 to December 16, 2015. It lasted approximately 48 hours and was the 23rd 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: 18413
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 4, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

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

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.usfj.mil. 6204 IN CNAME www.dodpw.defense.gov.edgesuite.net.
www.dodpw.defense.gov.edgesuite.net. 55 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: 283 msec
;; SERVER: 208.67.222.222#53(208.67.222.222)
;; WHEN: Mon Dec 14 07:56:07 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: 45192
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

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

;; Query time: 405 msec
;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8)
;; WHEN: Mon Dec 14 07:56:13 2015
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 30

dnscheck

dnscheck.labs.nic.cz archived a DNSSEC outage at 2015-12-14 07:55:25 (requires javascript).

dnscheck.iis.se archived a DNSSEC outage at 2015-12-14 07:55:10 (requires javascript).

Zonemaster

Zonemaster archived this usfj.mil DNSSEC outage.