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DNSSEC outage

September 20, 2025 at 5:40 PM UTC

DNS

Resolved after 2h 51m of downtime September 20, 2025 at 8:32 PM UTC

All services are affected by a major DNS outage.

It seems like DNSSEC key rotations happened sooner than expected: the rotation was planned for November 2025, and it happened today, breaking DNS resolution for all torproject.org domains around 2025-09-20 17:40:10UTC.

Keys were updated in the .org registry at around 19:32UTC. With the one hour time-to-live record on .org DS records, we expect this outage will be fully resolved by 20:32UTC.

The .net domains have a much longer time to live (a full day), and we believe this lessened the impact of the outage on that domain. The DS keys were updated at 20:32UTC, which gave a window of about three hours for the outage on that domain, for which the outage is actually a full day, with service fully returning on 2025-09-21 20:32.

Details in the GitLab incident tpo/tpa/team#42297.

Last updated: September 20, 2025 at 5:01 PM UTC