usfj.mil DNSSEC Outage: 2016-01-06 to 2016-01-07

Updated: January 7, 2016

Overview

This page gives some details on the usfj.mil DNSSEC outage from January 6 to January 7, 2016. It was the 1st 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: 12025
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 4, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

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

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.usfj.mil. 1646 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 173.205.30.122
a1603.dscb.akamai.net. 20 IN A 173.205.30.90

;; Query time: 601 msec
;; SERVER: 208.67.222.222#53(208.67.222.222)
;; WHEN: Thu Jan 7 04:46:03 2016
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 143

With Google Public DNS, because of 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: 46795
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

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

;; Query time: 1154 msec
;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8)
;; WHEN: Thu Jan 7 04:46:11 2016
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 30

dnscheck

dnscheck.labs.nic.cz archived a DNSSEC outage at 2016-01-07 04:45:31 (requires javascript).

dnscheck.iis.se archived a DNSSEC outage at 2016-01-07 04:45:24 (requires javascript).

zonemaster

zonemaster archived this usfj.mil DNSSEC outage.

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