I bake bread fairly often, usually sourdough. Last night I had three mini-loaves baking showing some great oven spring. Sadly I burnt them all to a crisp. What could have distracted me so much?

Sadly, it was just me getting confused over why the website wasn’t getting DNS resolution. DNSChecker.org was showing that phasedoor.com was correctly resolving everywhere, so why couldn’t I navigate there. The IP address was up. Dig showed that everything was fine.

Toggling it off and requerying — oh DNSSEC must have expired. I guess it has been 30 days since I last updated my DNS. Wow, time flies.

sniff sniff “What’s that sm… oh noooo!”

Lesson learned — run a cron job every 4 weeks to update DNS to keep DNSSEC from burning your bread.