usfj.mil DNSSEC Outage: 2016-05-12 to 2016-05-16

Updated: May 16, 2016

Overview

This page gives some details on the usfj.mil DNSSEC outage from May 12 to May 16, 2016.

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 9.8.2rc1-RedHat-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.45.amzn1 <<>> www.usfj.mil @resolver1.opendns.com.
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 17763
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 4, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

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

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.usfj.mil. 6245 IN CNAME www.dodpw.defense.gov.edgesuite.net.
www.dodpw.defense.gov.edgesuite.net. 153 IN CNAME a1603.dscb.akamai.net.
a1603.dscb.akamai.net. 20 IN A 96.17.15.40
a1603.dscb.akamai.net. 20 IN A 96.17.15.18

;; Query time: 115 msec
;; SERVER: 208.67.222.222#53(208.67.222.222)
;; WHEN: Thu May 12 20:27:20 2016
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 143

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

; <<>> DiG 9.8.2rc1-RedHat-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.45.amzn1 <<>> +dnssec www.usfj.mil @8.8.8.8
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 65142
;; 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: 374 msec
;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8)
;; WHEN: Thu May 12 20:27:20 2016
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 41

dnscheck

dnscheck.labs.nic.cz archived a DNSSEC outage at 2016-05-12 21:48:05 (requires javascript).

dnscheck.iis.se archived a DNSSEC outage at 2016-05-12 21:47:29 (requires javascript).

Zonemaster

zonemaster.net archived this usfj.mil DNSSEC outage.

zonemaster.fr archived this usfj.mil DNSSEC outage.

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