Massive Internet Infrastructure Outage Today Due to Akamai DNS Outage

posted on July 23, 2021

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Many websites including major ones all across the world were affected by an outage at Akamai’s Edge DNS Service today. Content delivery network provider Akamai Technologies initially mentioned that a service disruption caused the huge Internet outage globally. Later on, the company stated that the root cause appeared to be a failure in their Edge DNS Service.