Akamai Edge DNS was down • Hacker News Board

Re: Akamai Edge DNS was down

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Post by MrRadar » Thu, Jul 22, 2021, 4:25 PM UTC

tru3_power wrote: post #16

Any idea on cause? Ddos or hardware failure?

Widespread issues like this on major CDNs tend to be configuration errors.

Re: Akamai Edge DNS was down

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Post by delgaudm » Thu, Jul 22, 2021, 4:25 PM UTC

Lastpass is down, so if you use lastpass the effect is significantly compounded.

Re: Akamai Edge DNS was down

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Post by whitepoplar » Thu, Jul 22, 2021, 4:25 PM UTC

rvz wrote: post #12

Probably Akamai needs to use Kubernetes. EDIT: So HN can't even take a joke after this? [0] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27893482

Probably caused by Kubernetes

Re: Akamai Edge DNS was down

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Post by cpgeier » Thu, Jul 22, 2021, 4:25 PM UTC

dbsmith83 wrote: post #8

https://downdetector.com/archive So many sites down... and unfortunately not one of them is Twitter

Amazing that down detector manages to stay up during these kinds of outages. Noticed it has been a little slow but they really have done a good job keeping it up even though large portions of the internet is down right now.

Re: Akamai Edge DNS was down

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Post by ceejayoz » Thu, Jul 22, 2021, 4:26 PM UTC

simonswords82 wrote: post #14

I'm sick and tired of these types of services (I'm looking at you too Cloudflare) going down and taking otherwise healthy websites down with them.

Most websites using Akamai aren't gonna be "otherwise healthy" without the CDN handling most of the load.

Re: Akamai Edge DNS was down

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Post by tyingq » Thu, Jul 22, 2021, 4:26 PM UTC

davidjgraph wrote: post #15

Serious question, has anyone properly solved the issue of DNS as a single point of failure?

It's an interesting question, as it's always been solved on the server side. All of the current problem is client side. That is, client resolvers that aren't using diverse providers, and only do things like round-robin with long timeouts.

Re: Akamai Edge DNS was down

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Post by mdtancsa » Thu, Jul 22, 2021, 4:26 PM UTC

rvz wrote: post #12

Probably Akamai needs to use Kubernetes. EDIT: So HN can't even take a joke after this? [0] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27893482

Sheesh, So yesterday! :)

Re: Akamai Edge DNS was down

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Post by mcintyre1994 » Thu, Jul 22, 2021, 4:26 PM UTC

delgaudm wrote: post #22

Lastpass is down, so if you use lastpass the effect is significantly compounded.

Do they not cache everything locally? I'd have thought a password manager/secure data store would work offline.

Re: Akamai Edge DNS was down

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Post by memco » Thu, Jul 22, 2021, 4:26 PM UTC

Was just browsing a website where the first page of a query worked, but visiting page 2 of the results was returning a DNS error. Was curious how and why only part of the site was down, but it looks like this was the problem as now the whole site is down.

Re: Akamai Edge DNS was down

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Post by gianpaj » Thu, Jul 22, 2021, 4:28 PM UTC

https://www.interactivebrokers.co.uk/ , a Trading Platform, is also down as well :(

How am I going to sell my AMC stock...