alt Hacker NewsDNSSEC disruption affecting .de domains – Resolved
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Mailbox.org (also from Germany) seems to be experiencing issues too.
Seems up again. How briefly did the outage last?
It’s not DNS
There’s no way it’s DNS
It was DNSSEC
On Monday there was a huge outage affecting several cities quite close to Frankfurt because someone cut major fiber line; today DENIC is having a party and right when everyone is drunk this happens because some post-rotation task cannot be completed.
There are too many coincidences happening.
With chrome it works again
You can visually see this anomaly in many of CF Radar's charts: https://radar.cloudflare.com/dns/de?dateRange=1d
quad9 seems to be having problems with DNSSEC as well
Seems to be fixed now.
How come I have zero problems with any .de domain I tried accessing in the last half hour?
I work with a few people specialised in IT security, and some of them take their jobs too seriously and will "lock down" everything to the point that it becomes a very real risk that they lock out everyone including themselves.
Fundamentally, security is a solution to an availability problem: The desire of the users is for a system to remain available despite external attack.
Systems that become unavailable to everyone fail this requirement.
A door with its keyhole welded shut is not "secure", it's broken.
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Maybe related to this? Crazy idea, but nothing surprises me anymore.
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/05/01/politics/us-troop-withdra...
Wow… it’s definitely not all .de TLDs, but a lot of prominent ones definitely.