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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.
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 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
... 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!
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.
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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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?
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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.
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.
Later they can post an 'incident report' on the slashdotting they're experiencing right now!
Seriously we need a *.sht domain.
Without web access, I have nothing to do but work.
bance.net
If it weren't slanted, it'd be |.
(Apologies to whomever I'd seen that from before.)
That green slime had it coming.
I wonder if Microsoft/AdTI will buy the "\." domain? News for Nerds slanted the other way!
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...