Akamai Edge DNS was down • Hacker News Board

Re: Akamai Edge DNS was down

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Post by cbeley » Thu, Jul 22, 2021, 4:29 PM UTC

I wonder if this is why LastPass is down. It has completely locked me out of my vault. You'd think it'd continue to work offline in a case like this. :/

Re: Akamai Edge DNS was down

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jul 22, 2021, 4:30 PM UTC

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Re: Akamai Edge DNS was down

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Post by iruoy » Thu, Jul 22, 2021, 4:30 PM UTC

Eikon wrote: post #5

This is affecting apple as well https://www.apple.com/go/

For some reason that url doesn't work for me, but https://www.apple.com/ and https://www.apple.com/nl/ do.

Re: Akamai Edge DNS was down

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Post by unemphysbro » Thu, Jul 22, 2021, 4:30 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

come on, this is funny. HN needs to lighten-up.

Re: Akamai Edge DNS was down

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Post by mcintyre1994 » Thu, Jul 22, 2021, 4:30 PM UTC

dbsmith83 wrote: post #8

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

It's interesting that they report an AWS outage but there don't seem to be any issues there. Looks like their methodology is a bit too reliant on those speculative tweets from the first 5 minutes of all these sites going down. https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/

> So many websites are down, are AWS servers down or something?

> Amazon web services is down which is affecting a lot of company web sites and services. Not sure what is going on.

> Miss us? @aldotcom and a whole bunch of other folks have been knocked off the internet by what appears to be an AWS attack/system failure. We'll be back. ?

Re: Akamai Edge DNS was down

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Post by sammy2244 » Thu, Jul 22, 2021, 4:31 PM UTC

delgaudm wrote: post #22

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

Having your passwords only accessible by internet is a stupid idea anyway

Re: Akamai Edge DNS was down

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Post by bpye » Thu, Jul 22, 2021, 4:31 PM UTC

This is apparently why I can't book my COVID vaccine appointment...

Re: Akamai Edge DNS was down

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Post by cbono1 » Thu, Jul 22, 2021, 4:32 PM UTC

Why would Google and Amazon be on the downdetector list or experiencing issues? Don't they have their own DNS / nameservers separate from Akamai?

Re: Akamai Edge DNS was down

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Post by mvanaltvorst » Thu, Jul 22, 2021, 4:32 PM UTC

What role does Akamai Edge DNS play in normal internet traffic? DNS responses usually get cached, as far as I understand correctly. And it is usually possible to change your DNS server to e.g. Google's and circumvent the outage. Does Akamai Edge DNS play a role on the server side?

Re: Akamai Edge DNS was down

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Post by _joel » Thu, Jul 22, 2021, 4:32 PM UTC

So that's why the NHS website is down