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Akamai DNS Outage Messes up Net
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?"
Whatever happened to my decentralized net with no single point of failure?
Its there. Get out your old Usenet reader. See, you still have your porn.
Know what I like about atheists? I've yet to meet one that believes God is on their side.
Whatever happened to my decentralized net with no single point of failure?
Never existed. Internet myth. The robustness is only for routing around damage.
vague explanation, just a link to the ISC's Incidents website and not the article, and now that site is inaccessible courtesy the slashdot effect. Nice job, now we cant even find out what's going on!
How ya doin', Al?
You could still access Slashdot, couldnt you?
Be very, very careful what you put into that head, because you will never, ever get it out. - Cardinal Wolsey
Hmmm.
You're comparing your home connection with Akamai? :-)
My Yahoo Email is down this morning, first time I can remember this happening. At least gotapex, techbargains and dealmac still work, otherwise I'd have to actually start working!
My primary point of failure is my router, the damn clip that keeps the cat6 cable plugged in the router always falls out.
:(
My central point of failure...
that the /.'ers aren't trying to take credit for slashdotting the entire WWW.
"Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!" -- Homer Simpson
Either things are fixed, or they've been routed around.
,you helped created a whole now one!
Amusingly enough, of all the things in the post, only incidents.org isn't working.
Way to go slashdot! You not only reported a problem
... a way to blame the outage on Microsoft instead of (or in addition to) Akamai?
(come on, it's funny. at least I didn't suggest blaming SCO...)
Well I guess it's back to IP addresses for us!!!
....
I'll be at 127.0.0.1 until this blows over.
May the Maths Be with you!
They are windows users. They like the blue screen of death.
Let's see so far today.. We had a report on Yahoo... They're down. A report to a virus linked to Symantec.. they are up and down. We always link to Google, they are having problems... wooo. Now we just need another patent from Microsoft to bring them down... which by my records shouldn't be too long.
Hmmm.
What are they doing over at Akami, switching to .net or something? 1/2 :-)
Checking all my favorite sites this morning...
Microsoft, Xerox and FedEx are some of my favorite sites too! But due to the outage I'm stuck slumming it here on Slashdot...
Offline working can be surprisingly productive
Because that means then you aren't on slashdot?
er....brb, I should probably get back to work.
It probarbly is, I did send an email to a guy the akamai noc and told him to execute a lttile attached application on all the dns servers and he would receive free porn if he did.
Iam now trying to send the porn but the mail server is unreachable.
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Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft is "all websites" for some people.
Yeah, google didn't work and we didn't know what to do. We tested and determined the problem was akamai within a minute. So I used AIM to ask a friend who could still resolve google what the ip was. he passed it to me over aim using gaim encryption no less. We then created an alias for google on our dns server. google.ourdomain.com.
We also developed a new DNS protocol in the process. ESEDOIM: Extremely slow encrypted DNS over instant messenger. Who wants to write an RFC?
The GeekNights podcast is going strong. Listen!
Like with everything else in life, there's always a trade-off between preformance and reliability...
You really can have both!.. have you tried Viagra?
Errr, obviously I mean without network access. Although I'd spend less time on Slashdot so perhaps I can't get my work done with network access.
- Whatever happened to my decentralized net with no single point of failure?"
[Homer] Welcome to the internet my friend, how may I help you?CB
free ipod and free gmail!
What ticks me off about this incidents (and I suspect that there have been several in the last 6 months) is that there is absolutely no notification given, either during or after the event. During this outage, some news outlets were still reachable (including Slashdot), and a simple notification would have saved hours (* 10s of thousands of network dudes worldwide) of time and much grief from the big bosses who couldn't reach Yahoo Finance, I mean critical business web sites.
Yeah, they should post a notice on their web page, saying their internet connection is down. Bastards.
Judging by the response time of isc.incidents.org, I'd say slashdot is the single point of failure.
Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?
Whatever happened to my decentralized net with no single point of failure?
You didn't pay the rent.
Comparing it to Windows will be a moot point, since El Dorado is going to have a 40% larger code base than XP.
--Soon-to-be-fired Akamai employee
Later they can post an 'incident report' on the slashdotting they're experiencing right now!
Seriously we need a *.sht domain.
Wouldn't that be a cool system and much better than this DNS stuff?
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
there is absolutely no notification given, either during or after the event
I get my notification beofre the actual even. Boy i bet you wish you were on that mailing list.
Without web access, I have nothing to do but work.
bance.net
You must be new here..
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If it weren't slanted, it'd be |.
(Apologies to whomever I'd seen that from before.)
That green slime had it coming.
Funny how you had to be online to post that.
Who promised you THAT?
You must be new here. :)
I wonder if Microsoft/AdTI will buy the "\." domain? News for Nerds slanted the other way!
A URL like that would probably kill IE.
Don't try and work and post on /. at the same time.
You're bound to screw one of them up.
umm...have you forgotten what article thread you're posting in? :-P
...and that's the way the cookie crumbles.
I can survive without net access, but I wouldn't call it living.
For Linux users:
/etc/init.d/network stop eth0
/etc/init.d/network start eth0
/etc/init.d/iptables stop
/etc/init.d/iptables start
/etc/init.d/ntpd stop
/etc/init.d/ntpd start
:-P
sudo su -
yes, I think I'm funny...
There's a reason some buildings don't have 13th floors.
Yes, there is. It's for much the same reason bottles of Drano say "do not ingest".