Chicago (ORD) - Service Degredation

Incident Report for Quad9 Public Network Status Page

Resolved

We have deployed the aforementioned replacement and additional core servers in Chicago (ORD), and should be at full performance, with additional capacity and redundancy.

We apologize for any inconvenience.

Issue Start: 15:05 UTC, December 17
Issue Stop: 19:50 UTC, December 17
Posted Dec 17, 2025 - 20:09 UTC

Investigating

We have experienced hardware failure on 1 of our core servers in Chicago (ORD). As a result, there may be elevated timeouts or DNS retries.

We are in the process of deploying 2 core servers; one to replace the failed server, and one to add additional capacity to improve redundancy.

We are aiming to bring up the 2 new core servers within 24 hours.

Issue Start: 15:05 UTC, December 17
Posted Dec 17, 2025 - 15:20 UTC
This incident affected: Recursive DNS Services (Current Status).