Several major websites and services, including Amazon, Steam, and Airbnb, were down for about an hour on Thursday due to issues with Akamai's Edge DNS service
Update 12:48 p.m. ET: Akamai says it has implemented a fix for the issue. “We have implemented a fix for this issue …
9to5Mac Chance Miller
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Discussion
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@akamai
Akamai Technologies
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We have implemented a fix for this issue, and based on current observations, the service is resuming normal operations. We will continue to monitor to ensure that the impact has been fully mitigated.
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@akamai
Akamai Technologies
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Akamai is experiencing a service disruption. We are actively investigating the issue and will provide an update in 30 minutes.
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@nicoleperlroth
Nicole Perlroth
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Vanguard, Fidelity, Schwab and more all hit by Akamai issues. Akamai says it has implemented a fix and should be resuming services now. Has not said what the root cause was.
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@iwiizkiid
@iwiizkiid
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DNS...we must respect, the importance of DNS 😳 https://twitter.com/...
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@mneylon
Michele Neylon
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The internet is a distributed mess held together with sticky tape at the best of times. https://twitter.com/...
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@juliettekayyem
Juliette Kayyem
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As we like to say, there is always a Boston connection. (Akamai is Cambridge, MA based content delivery network (CDN) services provider; if they are down, others follow). https://twitter.com/...
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@jennfranconews
Jenn Franco
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BREAKING: Many websites — including banking pages, brokerages, and gaming services — were affected for just over an hour Thursday, as part of a major internet outage. https://www.theverge.com/...
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@martinsfp
Martin Sfp Bryant
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CDNs go down taking big chunks of the web with them - that's just life. How quickly they deal with the issue and how well they communicate about it is what to judge them on. Akamai moved fast here. https://twitter.com/...
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@c_davies
Chris Davies
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The government stages these DNS outages so that the Deep State can move Tom Hanks to another secure location, don't believe the misdirection
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@davidu
@davidu
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It's always DNS.
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@tomwarren
Tom Warren
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yup it's DNS. It's always DNS 🙃 https://edgedns.status.akamai.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...