Akamai, global leader of content delivery network (CDN) and DNS for media and software delivery, and cloud security solutions went down for the second time in a month. This follows a similar issue with CDN provider, Fastly.
Many websites went offline overnight in an outage sparked by a glitch in Akamai’s systems.
“We have implemented a fix for this issue, and based on current observations, the service is resuming normal operations,” Akamai said in a tweet at 2:30am AEST.
The disruption lasted up to an hour and was caused by a bug in the domain name system (DNS) service, which allows web addresses to take users to their destinations, which was triggered during a software update, Akamai said.
Akamai Services are now back up and brandsec will monitor for any further disruption.
About brandsec
bandsec is a corporate domain name management and brand protection company that looks after many of Australia, New Zealand and Asia’s top publicly listed brands. We provide monitoring and enforcement services, DNS, SSL Management, domain name brokerage and dispute management and brand security consultation services.