Repo.nitrokey.com DNS issue?

Nitrokeys
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Hi there, I am wondering about the following - what’s going on?

repo.nitrokey.com DNS resolution failing

System: Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS (jammy)

Issue: The Nitrokey repository at repo.nitrokey.com is failing DNS resolution, causing apt update to fail when fetching from this source.

Error output:

Ign:14 https://repo.nitrokey.com/ubuntu jammy InRelease
Fehl:14 https://repo.nitrokey.com/ubuntu jammy InRelease
»repo.nitrokey.com« konnte nicht aufgelöst werden.
W: Fehlschlag beim Holen von https://repo.nitrokey.com/ubuntu/dists/jammy/InRelease »repo.nitrokey.com« konnte nicht aufgelöst werden.

DNS investigation:

  • Multiple DNS servers (1.1.1.1, 8.8.8.8, local resolver) all return “No answer” for repo.nitrokey.com
  • dig repo.nitrokey.com NS shows no nameserver records for the subdomain
  • Main domain nitrokey.com resolves fine and uses Cloudflare DNS (skip.ns.cloudflare.com)
  • Domain registration is valid until 2025-08-15

Question:

Is this a known infrastructure issue? Has the repository been moved to a different URL, or is this a temporary DNS configuration problem?

Any guidance on the correct repository URL for Ubuntu 22.04 would be appreciated.

Thank you!

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something seems to have been fixed just today, great, it works now!

oberstet@amd-ryzen5:~$ dig repo.nitrokey.com NS

; <<>> DiG 9.18.30-0ubuntu0.24.04.2-Ubuntu <<>> repo.nitrokey.com NS
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 8351
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 65494
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;repo.nitrokey.com.		IN	NS

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
nitrokey.com.		1705	IN	SOA	skip.ns.cloudflare.com. dns.cloudflare.com. 2374870390 10000 2400 604800 1800

;; Query time: 20 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.53#53(127.0.0.53) (UDP)
;; WHEN: Fri Jun 13 22:21:23 CEST 2025
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 105

here (note I also upgraded that system to 24.04 - but I don’t think that was related … but not entirely sure - anyways:

oberstet@amd-ryzen5:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
Description:	Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS
Release:	24.04
Codename:	noble
oberstet@amd-ryzen5:~$ apt search nitrokey
Sortierung… Fertig
Volltextsuche… Fertig
hsmwiz/noble,noble 0.0.2-2 all
  Easy handling of NitroKey HSM USB Smard Card

libnitrokey-common/noble,noble 3.7-1.1 all
  architecture independent files for libnitrokey

libnitrokey-dev/noble 3.7-1.1 amd64
  library to communicate with Nitrokey stick devices (development)

libnitrokey3/noble 3.7-1.1 amd64
  library to communicate with Nitrokey stick devices

librust-nitrokey-dev/noble 0.3.4-3 amd64
  Rust bindings for libnitrokey - Rust source code

librust-nitrokey-sys-dev/noble 3.4.3-2 amd64
  Low-level bindings to libnitrokey - Rust source code

librust-nitrokey-test-dev/noble 0.3.2-1 amd64
  supporting test infrastructure for the nitrokey crate - Rust source code

nitrocli/noble 0.2.4-2 amd64
  command line interface for Nitrokey devices

nitrokey-app/noble 1.4.2-1ubuntu2 amd64
  Application to manage the Nitrokey

nitrokey-authenticator/noble 1.2.4-2build3 amd64
  TOTP authenticator app that's using Nitrokey Pro2 and/or LibremKey

python3-pkcs11/noble 0.7.0-1build2 amd64
  high level PKCS#11 interface for Python

oberstet@amd-ryzen5:~$