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Akamai DNS Outage Messes up Net

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the point-of-failure dept.

katre writes "Checking all my favorite sites this morning, I saw that about half a dozen seem to be offline. Trying to figure out why, I found an interesting article on the front page at http://isc.incidents.org/. Seems that the problems at Akamai are screwing over Yahoo, Google, Microsoft, Fedex, Xerox, Apple, and others. Whatever happened to my decentralized net with no single point of failure?"

7 of 522 comments (clear)

  1. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    who gives a fuck?

    i mean, really.

    1. Re:fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      fuck fuck fuck fuck asshole fuck take this you towel-head faggot fuck fuck

  2. Re:Good morning, Mr. Gore. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Fuck off, Gore-love, liberal lameass

  3. TROLL/KARMA WHORE ALERT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    If Akamai was running on Windows servers, I guarantee it would have been mentioned in both the headline and in the article summary today. But instead it's just mysterious "DNS issues."
    And what do you have to back up your assertions besides what you just pulled out of your ass? Oh, that's right, nothing. This is just another lame attempt to whore some karma.

    Sad thing is, it'll probably work because the moderators here as just about as stupid as you are.
  4. big/popular sites != internet by mrmud · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yahoo, Google, Microsoft, Fedex, Xerox, Apple, and others.

    Well, as strange as this may seem, these aren't the only sites on the net. I hardly see how these sites failing constitutes a "the sky is falling due to uncentralized DNS servers!" mentality.

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    -- MrMud
  5. Re:I'm definitely not a technical guru... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    What are you waffling on about? Are you some sort of spotty teenager with no real work experience? I also recommend you take some more English classes because your writing and communication abilities are very poor.

  6. Re:TROLL/KARMA WHORE ALERT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Ummm....quoth the Register:

    One theory currently doing the rounds is that Akamai patched a hole discovered this week in the Linux kernel that allows for a server to be crashed with a simple 20-line piece of code. Akamai runs on Linux servers and the patch could well have crashed its servers, taking with them everyone's websites.

    You fucking dumbass.