usfj.mil DNSSEC Outage: 2016-03-30 to 2016-04-01

Updated: April 1, 2016

Overview

This page gives some details on the usfj.mil DNSSEC outage from March 30 to April 1, 2016. It was the 9th DNSSEC outage of the year for usfj.mil, and lasted over 2 days.

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: 59511
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 4, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

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

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.usfj.mil. 3379 IN CNAME www.dodpw.defense.gov.edgesuite.net.
www.dodpw.defense.gov.edgesuite.net. 96 IN CNAME a1603.dscb.akamai.net.
a1603.dscb.akamai.net. 20 IN A 209.133.57.75
a1603.dscb.akamai.net. 20 IN A 209.133.57.88

;; Query time: 273 msec
;; SERVER: 208.67.222.222#53(208.67.222.222)
;; WHEN: Wed Mar 30 14:17:05 2016
;; 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: 26803
;; 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: 337 msec
;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8)
;; WHEN: Wed Mar 30 14:17:06 2016
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 41

dnscheck

dnscheck.labs.nic.cz archived a DNSSEC outage at 2016-03-30 14:14:33 (requires javascript).

dnscheck.iis.se archived a DNSSEC outage at 2016-03-30 14:14:27 (requires javascript).

zonemaster

zonemaster archived this usfj.mil DNSSEC outage.

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