Anyone noticed that a ton of DNS servers are not functioning properly right now? Yahoo, and MSN seem to be effected. And some Root DNS servers are corrupt. THis has been going on for a few hours now.
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Anyone noticed that a ton of DNS servers are not functioning properly right now? Yahoo, and MSN seem to be effected. And some Root DNS servers are corrupt. THis has been going on for a few hours now.
Depends on where you are at but Internet Traffic Report is showing stable network connectivity generally. But a visit to Incidents.org shows that the Akamai DNS servers are affected (hence why Yahoo and MSN would be)
Thanks for the http://www.incidents.org/ link. Very usefull. Also nice to know its not us.
It seems as if their servers are back up. M$ and Google, as well as a handful of other big sites that Akami caches are doing just fine.
COmeon Rioter, we have underage kids here, you cross the line man !
I deleted rioter's post, as I have no other way right now to prevent people from seeing his avatar. He's been warned...
Thanks Neg!
I didn't see his post, but what's his avatar and what happened??
I sent you a PM, nobody needs to explain it either :) Now let's get back on topic.
Yeah, and Neg it's in that Linux Firewall thread too. Sick bastard, surprised he's not banned.
typical rioter, I remember a similar incident.
Anyway about the DNS problems, at sunday and monday I experienced some minor problems with some sites that where not reachable due to DNS problems. However, for those it was probably an isolate problem and not a global DNS incident.
"Akamai has got back to us to explain that the problem stemmed from what a spokesman called a "large scale international attack on the Internet's infrastructure". Akamai said the attack was primarily aimed at the large search engines - of which it runs the three largest, Yahoo!, Google and Lycos - which meant that people were unable to access the sites."
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06...i_goes_postal/
They said it started at 1:30pm. and ended at 3:30 pm. The network I am on couldnt resolve the hostnames at 9am today. I finally could access google at about noon.
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I am on CST though. So obviously this was on the east coast.
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It happened this morning for about an hour for me, just as I wanted to perform a load of web searches as well! Google, MSN, Microsoft, Yahoo and Lycos were all down for me.
If it happens again, try search.yahoo.com - apparently it's on a different set of DNS servers and I could use it whilst everything else was down.
Source : http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105_2-523...=zdfd.newsfeedQuote:
A domain name outage Tuesday morning left many popular Web sites such as Yahoo, Google, Microsoft.com and Apple.com temporarily inaccessible, according to a Web research company.
For just more than two hours--from 5:30 a.m. to 7:45 a.m. PDT--many of the world's most popular sites suffered from widespread outages, according to Keynote Systems, which compiles statistics related to Web surfing. On a typical day, the top 40 sites measured by Keynote rarely dip below 99 percent availability. On Tuesday, however, Keynote saw availability drop to 81 percent.
Keynote said the site blackouts stemmed from an outage suffered by Akamai Technologies' domain name server system, which translates word-based URLs into numeric Web addresses to link surfers to company sites.
Though Keynote did not have solid confirmation of the source of the issue, one executive there speculated that Akamai may have suffered a denial-of-service attack. DoS attacks flood a company's servers with millions of simultaneous requests for data. The attacks often overwhelm and shut down servers.
"I know folks who built Akamai's infrastructure, and they are really sharp people," Lloyd Taylor, vice president of technology at Keynote, said in an interview. "While it's possible that there was internal failure, I think it's a low possibility."
An Akamai representative did not return calls requesting comment.
With the sites back up, it appears the DNS issue has been resolved, but Yahoo's new Web-based e-mail service, launched Tuesday, continues to have problems.
Since early Tuesday morning, users have experienced glitches with Yahoo Mail, such as site inaccessibility, slow page loads and inoperable buttons on the site. A Yahoo spokeswoman said the company is "investigating the potential impact of a widespread DNS issue on our services." But launch-related bugs are also a possibility.
"As we upgrade tens of millions of Yahoo Mail accounts for consumers worldwide, some users may experience temporary fluctuations in the service as we update our systems," said Yahoo spokeswoman Mary Osako. "We expect Yahoo Mail accounts to resume to normal after the upgrades are completed."