Massive outage disrupts internet services
Thousands of websites and digital services around the world were unavailable on Thursday after cloud computing company Akamai experienced what it called a “service incident.”
OH, could if be another of those “attacks” coming from the CCP on the west?
Typically, a DNS (Domain Names System) service is what keeps websites up and running when they are under siege from malicious third parties trying to overwhelm them by sending a huge flood of traffic to them all at once.
Sure sounds like it.
Affected websites were not loading and displayed various DNS-related service errors.
“We are aware of an emerging issue with the Edge DNS service,” Akamai said on its website. “We are actively investigating the issue.”
And I hope the FBI/CIA is also involved.
But reports suggest tens of thousands of company websites and apps continue to be disrupted, including airlines, banks, technology companies and retailers.
Pingdom, a service that monitors global internet traffic, reported that more than 34,000 sites were down for various reasons at one point. As of 1 p.m. ET, more than 18,000 were still offline, including almost 200 in Canada.
That is alot.
Barely a month ago, a similar DNS issue at web services company Fastly also wiped out thousands of websites and cost $2 billion in economic losses.
This time, we got lucky and no known sites were wiped out, as of this article.
…the outage shows just how vulnerable the current internet is because it has moved from its decentralized origins to become massively consolidated behind the scenes.
“It’s a web but it’s not a decentralized web, it’s not thousands of points connecting — it’s a lot of points connecting to these essential services and then coming to the rest of us.”
OH, and wasn’t this one of the things on that infamous list dementia joe told putin not to attack.
Just wondering if the CCP got word of that list…
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