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Over 32,000 Websites Down After Critical Akamai DNS Failure
More than 32,000 websites are down worldwide as a massive DNS failure originated a little after 1100ET. Oracle shines more light on what sparked the outage. It says: Identified - We are monitoring a global issue related to Akamai edge DNS that is impacting access to many internet resources, including Oracle cloud properties. Resources within the Oracle cloud are continuing to run and are not impacted by this event. At least 30,000 websites are down worldwide. There appears to be a major DNS, or Domain Name System failure that began shortly after 1100ET. DNS acts as the phone directory of the internet, translating ... (full story)
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$AKAM Spokesperson: We are aware of an emerging issue with the Edge DNS service; We are actively investigating the issue (Akamai Technologies Inc)
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