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Keith’s 4:40 pm Update: They fixed it.
I was about to duplicate this issue when attempting to access the NASA website. I'm reaching out to our engineers to have the DNS issue looked into. ~DB
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Keith’s 12:00 pm Update: This is what IsItDownRightNow? has to say about NASA. Comcast seems to be having problems. But this guy in Sweden is having problems too.
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This is the NASA IT dept.
TL;DR – DNS is messed up.
The http://www.nasa.gov CNAME rrset is missing an RRSIG. This means that the CNAME can’t be authenticated; any DNSEC-aware resolver will refuse to translate the name to protect you from site spoofing.
In addition, one DNS server is not responding to TCP queries.
And there are missing AAAA glue records for the CDN.
Gory details at http://dnsviz.net/d/www.nas…
Not just DNSSEC. I couldn’t resolve at all nasa.gov. No NS server address.