Akamai Having Problems?

A reader writes:"It appears that sometime during the night, Akamai had some problems causing some connectivitly issues with many hosts thoughout the night. Akamai provides a DNS load balancing solution to many major internet companies/sites including (but notlimited to) Google, Yahoo, etc. Is it a bad idea to rely so heavily upon one service for our major internet needs? " Not much details - but I can confirm having problems this morning. Thanks to alert readers for pointing that they were having "DoS related issues" and that service was restored as of 1400 GMT.

Re:SBC?

[Anonymous Coward]

Did the bytes join in solidarity?

Having problems?

[MarkGriz]

Posting a link to their website on Slashdot should help them out.

It's simple.

[Bug-Man]

Terrorism.

Not a problem with having one company

[millahtime]

I don't think it's a problem to go with one company. As long as that company has a distributed solution with many uplink providers. So, basically redundancy when something happens because no matter how good you are there will always be hickups.

Re:erm...

[geoffspear]

In other news, my home DSL briefly went down during a severe thunderstorm the other day.

What really happened...

[Fulkkari]

The cleaning lady needed electricity to her vacuum cleaner.

Poor sysadmins.

Re:SBC?

[MarkGriz]

Did the bytes join in solidarity?

Word up!

Re:SBC?

[Anonymous Coward]

Make packets not pickets!

YIKES!

[ZHaDoom]

I hope its not my fault. I knocked out 3 of akamai servers with a router problem =(

They just found the culprit

[Anonymous Coward]

The outage was apparently related to a DDOS attack against project Gutenberg that started this morning.

Re:Apple down, Microsoft up

[lazy_arabica]

microsoft.com has no problems. I thought they were using Akamai's services as well?

They are:

www.microsoft.akadns.net CNAME www2.microsoft.akadns.net

Oh my god, this must be another Microsoft conspiracy, you'll soon see them shutting google.com down ! :-P

Silly Akamai

[avisdream]

I've had so many problems with akamai as of late...it seemingly has a monopoly over just about any commercial website I'm interested in. I don't see images very often while I'm at work...they just idle. Maybe it's a sign that I should stop shopping when I'm supposed to be working :(

Closer to home

[Anonymous Coward]

Is it a bad idea to rely so heavily upon one service for our major internet needs?

Yeah. Duh. But, where else can I get a /. fix?

Re:erm...

[Anonymous Coward]

The other day, the whole Internet was down. The cause was traced to their cable being unplugged from my computer. I put it back and restored the Internet. I hope this didn't cause anyone problems.

Re:Having problems?

[Anonymous Coward]

You think Slashdot can affect them? How quaint.

michaelmoore.com

[dario_moreno]

seems also to be down. I was trying to access it after the Cannes result, and thought the US government had censored it...

Re:Single Domino Theory Revisited

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes...oh dear God imagine if Google was down for a day what would the world do?

Re:Perhaps....

[Anonymous Coward]

I remember doing that a few years back ;-)

I just went to akamai's site to see if they have any terms of use or anything but all I see is a blank page, so it must be ok.

Re: DHS

[Anonymous Coward]

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Re:"Not much details?"

[Anonymous Coward]

Do you mean "grammatical mistakes"?