External DNS Resolution Issues Thursday 26th March 2020 09:22:53


This notice is to inform you of a unscheduled outage, may cause some disruption to your service with Conetix.

Scope of Issue

Conetix is aware of DNS resolution issues affecting all services and currently have engineers working to resolve the issue. The fault has been identified and a fix put in place to correct.

The fault has been identified with the ISC DNSSEC Lookaside Validation (DLV) server, which had failed to renew the certificates to validate the DNS records. This had a cascading effect on all further DNS lookups for all Top Level Domains (TLD's) such as .com, .org, .net and similar.

This fault affected hundreds of thousands of systems world-wide and not limited to nor related to any Conetix platform.

Impacted Services

Updates and Status

Contact Info

If the unscheduled outage has been marked as resolved and you still believe there is an issue, please contact us immediately to lodge a support ticket or by calling us on 1300 789 260.

Please note that during an outage, there may be some slight delays in responding to support tickets and calls. This is due the fact that our efforts will be focussed on resolving the fault and ensuring there is timely updates for all customers via this page.