[EDS66]

Those of you who have been having difficulties with browsing the web today, this is probably why:

Akamai DNS outage
Akamai DNS problem affected large sites

Starting at around 8:30 am EDT (12:30 UTC), a number of sources started to report a widespread Akamai DNS issue. Large web sites, which use Akamai for its DNS service, did no longer resolve. Affected sites were Yahoo, Google, Microsoft, Fedex, Xerox, Apple and likely many others.

At this time (10:30 am EDT), some affected domains removed the Akamai DNS servers and are reachable again using their own DNS servers.

Typically, the domain itself (e.g. 'google.com') still resolved, but popular hostnames, like 'www.google.com' did not resolve. As a result, the web site was no longer reachable.

The effect appears to be world wide. Some of the Akamai servers do respond to pings, but do not respond to DNS queries.



http://isc.incidents.org/

[DMBand0026]

Dude, you broke the internet. Al Gore is gonna be so pissed.