Peace, TWIMC: the .ru TLD has issued a post mortem. A tl;dr version: After a new key was crafted during an ordinary key update process, its key tag hash-collided with some other key, and due to a violation of the MUST NOT clause in the RFC 4034, Appendix B, the wrong key was deployed to the system. -- Töma On Wed, 31 Jan 2024, 9:59 am Bill Woodcock, <woody@pch.net> wrote:
On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 8:11 AM Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net> wrote: Not exactly down… they just busted their DNSSEC, or their domain got hijacked or something. Bad DNSKEY records.
On Jan 31, 2024, at 06:34, Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuhnke@gmail.com> wrote: Not necessarily saying these are related, but given the current geopolitical situation, not beyond the realm of possibility that this is the result of 'something else' gone wrong.
Phil Kulin posted a more specific timeline on dns-ops:
Begin forwarded message:
From: Phil Kulin <schors@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [dns-operations] .RU zone failed ZSK rotation Date: January 31, 2024 at 03:34:40 GMT+1 To: Sergey Myasoedov <s@netartgroup.com> Cc: dns-operations@lists.dns-oarc.net
Timeline: 2024-01-30 12:29:44 UTC: Last correct answer before outage (SOA SN: 4058855): https://dnsviz.net/d/ru/ZbjruA/dnssec/ 2024-01-30 15:27:27 UTC: First bad answer (SOA SN: 4058857): https://dnsviz.net/d/ru/ZbkVXw/dnssec/ 2024-01-30 17:27:35 UTC: Resigning attempt (SOA SN: 4058857 and 4058858): https://dnsviz.net/d/ru/Zbkxhw/dnssec/ 2024-01-30 17:59:46 UTC: Recovering process started (SOA SN: 4058857 and 4058857 and 4058858): https://dnsviz.net/d/ru/Zbk5Eg/dnssec/ 2024-01-30 19:07:29 UTC: First completely good answer (SOA SN: 4058856): https://dnsviz.net/d/ru/ZblI8Q/dnssec/
There’s no reason to think that any external parties influenced this. Ockham’s razor.
So many euphemisms suggest themselves in a situation like this… Own-goal, one-car-accident, etc. Except that we all know that one small thing overlooked and we’ll be in their shoes tomorrow. All geopolitics aside, my empathy to the .RU operator.
-Bill