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?"

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decentralized DNS is a pipe dream

[pbranes]

The net is not decentralized and it never will be. Look at what happened today - one root server goes down & it breaks the Internet for half of the US population & possibly others. I am unable to access the server listed above from various server locations spread across the country & using different ISP's.

The internet is completely vulnerable to virus attacks, terrorist attacks because of the single point of failures that still exist - despite everyone preaching to the contrary.

I am suspicous of akamai

[davidsyes]

I am VERY suspicous of Akamai. I think they are an extension of carnivore, double-click and others unnamed to date. I tend to block them in my IDS/firewall.

Admittedly, I have not dug into them, but ANYbody can have a company front for an intelligence/security activity.

DAVID the suspicious...