Akamai Having Problems?

Posted by Hemos on Monday May 24, 2004 @02:14AM from the problems-around dept.

A reader writes:"It appears that sometime during the night, Akamai had some problems causing some connectivitly issues with many hosts thoughout the night. Akamai provides a DNS load balancing solution to many major internet companies/sites including (but notlimited to) Google, Yahoo, etc. Is it a bad idea to rely so heavily upon one service for our major internet needs? " Not much details - but I can confirm having problems this morning. Thanks to alert readers for pointing that they were having "DoS related issues" and that service was restored as of 1400 GMT.

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Re:Perhaps.... by hkroger · 2004-05-24 02:28 · Score: 0, Troll

So is this legal or not? More information needed. I could use also their bandwidth. =)
Re:apple trailers by Anonymous Coward · 2004-05-24 03:03 · Score: -1, Troll

It's sort of hard to differentiate between the stuttery, unstable playback of Quicktime and network issues related to streamed content. I'd test it a few time to be sure, if I were you. ;)