Denic sorry for DNSSEC error that crashed Germany’s internet

It's always DNS: Denic says sorry for crashing Germany's internet

Major .de domains experienced hours-long outage after registry distributed faulty signatures

Denic says the DNS blunder that brought most of Germany’s internet down on Tuesday evening is now resolved, and that websites should be operating normally after hours of disruption.

The registry, which looks after Germany’s .de top-level domain, said the problems were first detected at 21:57 on April 5, but engineers rolled out fixes by 01:15.

It said the issues were related to Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC), and that faulty DNSSEC signatures were distributed.

At the time of writing, it is still working on understanding the root cause of how this error came to pass.

Denic did not provide many details about the specific tech glitch behind the disruption. Some online commentators have suggested it was related to a zone signing key rollover, although not everyone...

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