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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?"

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  1. Whatever happened to my decentralized net? by mattkime · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  2. Good morning, Mr. Gore. by Quarters · · Score: 5, Funny
    Whatever happened to my decentralized net with no single point of failure?

    How ya doin', Al?

    1. Re: Good morning, Mr. Gore. by whereiswaldo · · Score: 4, Funny

      I've seen the same joke once a week for 4 damn years. I'm just sick of it.

      In Soviet Russia the world revolves around YOU!

      "He's sick of the jokes boys. Let's shut 'em down." -- Chief Wiggum

  3. Single point of failure by jelizondo · · Score: 5, Funny

    You could still access Slashdot, couldnt you?

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  4. Hmmm by Mz6 · · Score: 5, Funny
    "Seems that the problems at Akamai are screwing over Yahoo, Google, Microsoft, Fedex, Xerox, Apple, and..."

    ... http://isc.incidents.org.

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    Hmmm.
  5. I'm surprised... by swasson · · Score: 5, Funny

    that the /.'ers aren't trying to take credit for slashdotting the entire WWW.

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  6. Re:DNS issue... by ObsessiveMathsFreak · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well I guess it's back to IP addresses for us!!!
    ....
    I'll be at 127.0.0.1 until this blows over.

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  7. You know... by Mz6 · · Score: 5, Funny
    If we timed our stories right we could pull this all off as the /. effect...

    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.

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  8. Need my Xerox fix! by goober · · Score: 5, Funny

    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...

  9. Re:I'm definitely not a technical guru... by endx7 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Offline working can be surprisingly productive

    Because that means then you aren't on slashdot?

    er....brb, I should probably get back to work.

  10. Re:releted to linux kernel DoS exploit? by mtenhagen · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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  11. We fixed it quick by Apreche · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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    1. Re:We fixed it quick by MyHair · · Score: 4, Funny

      Must file patent...clowns will eat me.

  12. Re:I'm definitely not a technical guru... by AKnightCowboy · · Score: 4, Funny
    I could not get any of my work done with network access.

    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.

  13. Luckily it's 99.45% shit to begin with. by gelfling · · Score: 4, Funny

    Seriously we need a *.sht domain.

  14. Re:Interesting... by Xaroth · · Score: 5, Funny

    If it weren't slanted, it'd be |.

    (Apologies to whomever I'd seen that from before.)

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  15. Re:Interesting... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I wonder if Microsoft/AdTI will buy the "\." domain? News for Nerds slanted the other way!