Non resolving domain with 1.1.1.1

So, after battling with HBO for few days now, it seems that Cloudflare doesn’t resolve their drm key server domain properly. The domain in question is:
hbo-playready.drmkeyserver.com

Here are the digs:

$ dig @1.1.1.1 hbo-playready.drmkeyserver.com                

; <<>> DiG 9.11.3-1ubuntu1.11-Ubuntu <<>> @1.1.1.1 hbo-playready.drmkeyserver.com
; (1 server found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 34374
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 1452
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;hbo-playready.drmkeyserver.com.        IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
hbo-playready.drmkeyserver.com. 60 IN   CNAME   license-eu-tokyo.drmkeyserver.com.

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
drmkeyserver.com.       900     IN      SOA     ns-1824.awsdns-36.co.uk. awsdns-hostmaster.amazon.com. 1 7200 900 1209600 86400

;; Query time: 98 msec
;; SERVER: 1.1.1.1#53(1.1.1.1)
;; WHEN: Tue Apr 14 00:07:00 CEST 2020
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 204

Now google (same with quad9 and opendns as well as local isp dns)

$ dig @8.8.8.8 hbo-playready.drmkeyserver.com

; <<>> DiG 9.11.3-1ubuntu1.11-Ubuntu <<>> @8.8.8.8 hbo-playready.drmkeyserver.com
; (1 server found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 25085
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 512
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;hbo-playready.drmkeyserver.com.        IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
hbo-playready.drmkeyserver.com. 59 IN   CNAME   license-eu-tokyo.drmkeyserver.com.
license-eu-tokyo.drmkeyserver.com. 59 IN A      35.158.188.37
license-eu-tokyo.drmkeyserver.com. 59 IN A      35.158.237.230

;; Query time: 52 msec
;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8)
;; WHEN: Tue Apr 14 00:08:30 CEST 2020
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 122

I’m using both DoH with cloudflared and direct 1.1.1.1, both have the same issue.
Any help will be greatly appreciated. I’m not going back to google!

It looks like there is some sort of issue with AWS DNS, my own DNS resolver fails to resolve it as well, I assume something is wrong there. Have you actually tried contacting AWS?

https://dnsviz.net/d/hbo-playready.drmkeyserver.com/dnssec/

$ dig @1.1.1.1 hbo-playready.drmkeyserver.com

; <<>> DiG 9.9.7-P3 <<>> @1.1.1.1 hbo-playready.drmkeyserver.com
; (1 server found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 57100
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 1452
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;hbo-playready.drmkeyserver.com.    IN    A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
hbo-playready.drmkeyserver.com.    60 IN    CNAME    license-eu-tokyo.drmkeyserver.com.

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
drmkeyserver.com.    900    IN    SOA    ns-1824.awsdns-36.co.uk. awsdns-hostmaster.amazon.com. 1 7200 900 1209600 86400

;; Query time: 111 msec
;; SERVER: 1.1.1.1#53(1.1.1.1)
;; WHEN: Mon Apr 13 21:35:53 EDT 2020
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 204

iPad $ dig @8.8.8.8 hbo-playready.drmkeyserver.com
; <<>> DiG 9.9.7-P3 <<>> @8.8.8.8 hbo-playready.drmkeyserver.com
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 18618
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 512
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;hbo-playready.drmkeyserver.com.    IN    A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
hbo-playready.drmkeyserver.com.    59 IN    CNAME    license-eu-tokyo.drmkeyserver.com.

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
drmkeyserver.com.    899    IN    SOA    ns-1824.awsdns-36.co.uk. awsdns-hostmaster.amazon.com. 1 7200 900 1209600 86400

;; Query time: 44 msec
;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8)
;; WHEN: Mon Apr 13 21:36:19 EDT 2020
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 174

So I saw this post and it reminded me of an issue in a GitHub repo here: Interesting dig on an (un)dead host. · Issue #14 · dead-hosts/dev-center · GitHub. So I thought I’d give this dig a try. But for me, both Cloudflare and Google end up at Amazon.

I guess someone fixed it. It’s good now.

$ dig @1.1.1.1 hbo-playready.drmkeyserver.com

; <<>> DiG 9.11.3-1ubuntu1.11-Ubuntu <<>> @1.1.1.1 hbo-playready.drmkeyserver.com
; (1 server found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 4419
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 1452
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;hbo-playready.drmkeyserver.com.        IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
hbo-playready.drmkeyserver.com. 7 IN    A       35.158.237.230
hbo-playready.drmkeyserver.com. 7 IN    A       35.158.188.37

;; Query time: 9 msec
;; SERVER: 1.1.1.1#53(1.1.1.1)
;; WHEN: Tue Apr 21 10:10:57 CEST 2020
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 121
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