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DNSSEC validation is failing

CODE RED

DNSSEC · Critical · costs 40 points · RFC 4035 section 5

What it means

Signatures for example.com do not validate. Validating resolvers, which includes Google, Cloudflare and most large mail providers. Refuse the answers entirely, so the domain stops resolving for a large part of the internet.

How to fix it

This is an emergency: check whether the DS record at your registrar still matches the key at your DNS host. A key rotation that only happened on one side is the usual cause.

Check your own domain

This page describes the condition. To find out whether your domain has it, run the DNSSEC test or the full checkup, which examines every record at once.

Understand it properly

This page covers one condition. For the whole picture, DNSSEC, defined, or start at the Health Library.

Where this comes from

We judge this against RFC 4035 section 5. Every finding on this site cites the specification behind it so you can check the work rather than take our word for it.

Other DNSSEC conditions

DNSSEC_BOGUS

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