usfj.mil DNSSEC Outage: 2016-08-15

Updated: August 15, 2016

Overview

This page gives some details on the usfj.mil DNSSEC outage on August 15, 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 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: 5507
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 4, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

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

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.usfj.mil. 6173 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 23.59.190.136
a1603.dscb.akamai.net. 20 IN A 23.59.190.105

;; Query time: 424 msec
;; SERVER: 208.67.222.222#53(208.67.222.222)
;; WHEN: Mon Aug 15 00:45:52 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: 30713
;; 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: 168 msec
;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8)
;; WHEN: Mon Aug 15 00:45:52 2016
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 41

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Zonemaster

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