Cloudflare experienced a minor incident on July 3, 2026 affecting Recursive DNS, lasting 15h 34m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Recursive DNS
Update timeline
- identified Jul 03, 2026, 04:48 PM UTC
We are observing issues with authoritative resolution for the .al TLD because of DNSSEC issues at the TLD.
- identified Jul 03, 2026, 05:02 PM UTC
Cloudflare is temporarily disabling DNSSEC validation for .AL domains on 1.1.1.1 resolver (as per RFC 7646) in order to allow .AL names to continue to resolve. DNSSEC validation will be re-enabled when the signing problems are known to have been resolved. See RFC 7646 for more details: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7646
- monitoring Jul 03, 2026, 05:25 PM UTC
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
- monitoring Jul 04, 2026, 08:12 AM UTC
We are continuing to monitor for any further issues.
- resolved Jul 04, 2026, 08:22 AM UTC
This incident has been resolved.