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deSEC DNS Service
API Operational
Website 🔗 Operational

Incident history


2025 (1)

April 25, 2025 at 9:30 PM UTC

Web and API maintenance  ℹ

Our web portal and the API will be unavailable due to routine operating system maintenance work. DNS queries will be processed as usual. We expect this to take no more than 30 minutes (and likely much …

2024 (2)

November 5, 2024 at 3:50 AM UTC

Network maintenance  ℹ

The datacenter will conduct urgent maintenance on a router, which will impact connectivity of our web server. During the 2-hour maintenance window, you may experience intermittent unavailability of …
September 4, 2024 at 8:00 AM UTC

Web and API maintenance  ℹ

Our web portal and the API will be unavailable due to routine operating system maintenance work. DNS queries will be processed as usual. We expect this to take no more than 4 hours (and likely much …

2023 (11)

December 4, 2023 at 10:26 AM UTC

Web and API availability temporarily impacted

Resolved after 20m of downtime
November 28, 2023 at 2:45 PM UTC

Database maintenance  ℹ

On Nov 28, 2023, between 14:45 UTC until around 15:15 UTC, we will be conducting maintenance work on one of our databases. The REST API and dynDNS update interface will be partially unavailable during …
November 16, 2023 at 3:00 AM UTC

Router maintenance  ℹ

On Nov 16, 2023, between 3am and 5am UTC, our datacenter will be performing router upgrades. During this period, there may be short availability interruptions of our web page, API, and dynDNS update …
September 7, 2023 at 7:15 AM UTC

SSD replacement  ℹ

One of the redundant disks on our web and API server failed, and is in the process of being replaced. The system is expected to remain operational during the replacement; no visible impact is expected …
August 2, 2023 at 3:15 PM UTC

Web and API maintenance  ℹ

Our web portal and the API will be unavailable due to routine operating system maintenance work. DNS queries will be processed as usual. We expect this to take no more than 30 minutes (and likely much …
July 20, 2023 at 1:15 PM UTC

Web and API maintenance  ℹ

Our web portal and the API will be unavailable due to routine operating system maintenance work. DNS queries will be processed as usual. We expect this to take no more than 30 minutes (and likely much …
April 28, 2023 at 4:19 AM UTC

Web server issue

Resolved after 14m of downtime
February 2, 2023 at 6:15 PM UTC

Delayed replication

Resolved after 1h 33m
January 30, 2023 at 12:00 AM UTC

Ongoing performance issues  ℹ

Since January 20, 2023, our DNS platform service has repeatedly been targeted by DDoS attacks, due to which our servers did not manage to respond to all requests. Attacks usually take around 15 …
January 28, 2023 at 5:38 PM UTC

DDoS attack

Resolved after 20m
January 22, 2023 at 10:45 AM UTC

DDoS attack

Resolved after 43m

2022 (4)

November 19, 2022 at 7:09 PM UTC

DDoS attack

Resolved after 20m
July 29, 2022 at 9:20 PM UTC

Backend maintenance  ℹ

Due to a database upgrade, the API will not be available for about 15 minutes.
June 24, 2022 at 3:00 PM UTC

Maintenance  ℹ

In order to apply a kernel update, we will have to reboot our API server. We are planning to use the opportunity for some other maintenance checks. This will cause web site and API to be unavailable …
March 3, 2022 at 12:19 PM UTC

Web and API maintenance  ℹ

Our web portal and the API will be unavailable due to infrastructure migration work. DNS queries will be processed as usual. We expect this to take no more than two hours (and ideally much less).

2021 (2)

October 18, 2021 at 6:21 PM UTC

Webserver outage

Resolved after 20m of downtime
March 2, 2021 at 2:00 AM UTC

Network maintenance  ℹ

Due to network maintenance at our upstream provider, the deSEC web site, REST API and dynDNS update interface will be unavailable for up to 30 minutes.

2020 (4)

December 1, 2020 at 5:17 AM UTC

API and web services outage

Resolved after 19m of downtime
October 17, 2020 at 4:26 AM UTC

API and web services outage

Resolved after 5h 47m of downtime
August 26, 2020 at 12:50 PM UTC

API maintenance  ℹ

The API will be unavailable due to database migration work. DNS queries will be processed as usual.
June 4, 2020 at 12:00 AM UTC

DNSSEC Problems due to Replication Issue

Resolved after 7h 0m