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infoblox:when_things_go_wrong [2025/02/11 12:22] – created bstaffordinfoblox:when_things_go_wrong [2025/02/11 12:24] (current) bstafford
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   * Caused Email outage.   * Caused Email outage.
   * Linux admin team decided that they didn't want DNS service maintenance under their role so moved it to Infoblox.   * Linux admin team decided that they didn't want DNS service maintenance under their role so moved it to Infoblox.
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 +===== Web Outage =====
 +  * NIOS Hidden Primary.
 +  * Third Party DNS provider zone transferred to publicly host zones.
 +  * Third Party acquired by another company.
 +  * Other company migrates systems.
 +  * Everything works.
 +  * Other company deletes migration systems.
 +  * Turns out, a few customers had their TSIG keys tied up in the migration system.
 +  * TSIG keys no longer existed.
 +  * Zone transfers failed.
 +  * Alerts for zone transfer failure... failed.
 +  * After a week, the secondary servers dropped the zones that they could not longer update.
 +  * Result - outage of critical website until customer updated public DNS to "unhide" their NIOS boxes.
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