usfj.mil DNSSEC Outage: 2015-12-30 to 2015-12-31

Updated: December 31, 2015

Overview

This page gives some details on the usfj.mil DNSSEC outage from December 30 to December 31, 2015. It was the 25th 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: 24096
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 4, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

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

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.usfj.mil. 6158 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 216.206.30.43
a1603.dscb.akamai.net. 20 IN A 216.206.30.25

;; Query time: 254 msec
;; SERVER: 208.67.222.222#53(208.67.222.222)
;; WHEN: Wed Dec 30 15:45:24 2015
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 143

With Google Public DNS, because of DNSSEC, queries fail:

$ dig +dnssec www.usfj.mil. @8.8.8.8

; <<>> DiG 9.4.2-P2 <<>> +dnssec www.usfj.mil. @8.8.8.8
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 51435
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags: do; udp: 512
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.usfj.mil. IN A

;; Query time: 279 msec
;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8)
;; WHEN: Wed Dec 30 15:45:33 2015
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 41

dnscheck

dnscheck.labs.nic.cz archived a DNSSEC outage at 2015-12-30 15:39:46 (requires javascript).

dnscheck.iis.se archived a DNSSEC outage at 2015-12-30 15:39:32 (requires javascript).

zonemaster

zonemaster archived this usfj.mil DNSSEC outage.

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