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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. Clear your cache by Frennzy · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yahoo is already resolving through scd instead of akamai. I didn't check any of the others.

    If you clear your cache, you will probably get the new entries, unless your ISP hasn't caught onto the problem yet.

  2. Ironically... by xbrownx · · Score: 5, Informative

    ...I can't even get to http://isc.incidents.org/

  3. 2nd time in a month by ZHaDoom · · Score: 5, Informative

    This should cause some problems for akami, they had an outage may 24th. Once can be overlooked twice? these are some big companies they are going to be calling them. I bet there is some sweating techs in the cool noc right now

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  4. Re:I'm definitely not a technical guru... by Pizzop · · Score: 5, Informative

    It would be hard to do most of my work (Server Maint.) without the net. I might have to actually go to the servers instead of ssh. Wait, what am I talkin about, without the net I wouldn't HAVE a job.

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  5. NANOG Postings by TheSync · · Score: 5, Informative

    From NANOG:

    From here neither www.google.com, nor www.apple.com work. Both seem to return CNAMES to akadns.net addresses (eg, www.google.akadns.net, www.apple.com.akadns.net), and from here all of the akadns.net servers listed in whois are failing to respond.

  6. Re:Terrorist attacks, anyone? by GlacierPilot · · Score: 5, Informative

    The real cost of a web site dropping is a lot more difficult to figure out than you might imagine. Say Amazon goes down for a couple of hours. Are all those potential sales lost forever? I doubt it. Some people will just come back and order later. The firm is unlikely to see any long term impact unless the outage becomes habitual. Non-retail sites probably have even more flexability. About the only area in which an outage could have a real, long term adverse impact would likely be in financial services. If Schwab goes down for half a day they will suffer big time for a long time. If you're talking "the economy" as in the big picture economy" suffering - forget it. Web based commerace isn't that important yet.

  7. How Sites are Coming Back Online by TheSync · · Score: 5, Informative

    From NANOG mailing list again:

    Google pulled references for akamais dns servers a short period ago. they are presently serving their own dns requests.

    Also:

    People seem to be getting around this by changing their DNS entries.

    E.g. www.yahoo.com always used to be a CNAME for www.yahoo.akadns.net. But
    now:

    # host www.yahoo.com
    www.yahoo.com is an alias for www.dcn.yahoo.com.
    www.dcn.yahoo.com has address 216.109.118.64
    www.dcn.yahoo.com has address 216.109.118.65
    www.dcn.yahoo.com has address 216.109.118.66
    www.dcn.yahoo.com has address 216.109.118.67
    www.dcn.yahoo.com has address 216.109.118.68
    www.dcn.yahoo.com has address 216.109.118.69
    www.dcn.yahoo.com has address 216.109.118.70
    www.dcn.yahoo.com has address 216.109.118.71
    www.dcn.yahoo.com has address 216.109.118.72
    www.dcn.yahoo.com has address 216.109.118.73
    www.dcn.yahoo.com has address 216.109.118.74
    www.dcn.yahoo.com has address 216.109.118.75

    Which is owned by Yahoo! (via HotJobs.com).