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FYI, there have been a number of reported issues involving DNS/network
access to major internet sites today (www.google.com, www.yahoo.com,
etc) where URLs couldn't be loaded because DNS lookups fail.
This is not just a local problem, but is internet-wide.
The following is taken from http://isc.incidents.org/
"Akamai DNS outage
Akamai DNS problem affected large sites
Starting at around 8:30 am EDT (12:30 UTC), a number of sources started
to report a widespread Akamai DNS issue. Large web sites, which use
Akamai for its DNS service, did no longer resolve. Affected sites were
Yahoo, Google, Microsoft, Fedex, Xerox, Apple and likely many others.
At this time (10:30 am EDT), some affected domains removed the Akamai
DNS servers and are reachable again using their own DNS servers.
Typically, the domain itself (e.g. 'google.com') still resolved, but
popular hostnames, like 'www.google.com' did not resolve. As a result,
the web site was no longer reachable.
The effect appears to be world wide. Some of the Akamai servers do
respond to pings, but do not respond to DNS queries."
access to major internet sites today (www.google.com, www.yahoo.com,
etc) where URLs couldn't be loaded because DNS lookups fail.
This is not just a local problem, but is internet-wide.
The following is taken from http://isc.incidents.org/
"Akamai DNS outage
Akamai DNS problem affected large sites
Starting at around 8:30 am EDT (12:30 UTC), a number of sources started
to report a widespread Akamai DNS issue. Large web sites, which use
Akamai for its DNS service, did no longer resolve. Affected sites were
Yahoo, Google, Microsoft, Fedex, Xerox, Apple and likely many others.
At this time (10:30 am EDT), some affected domains removed the Akamai
DNS servers and are reachable again using their own DNS servers.
Typically, the domain itself (e.g. 'google.com') still resolved, but
popular hostnames, like 'www.google.com' did not resolve. As a result,
the web site was no longer reachable.
The effect appears to be world wide. Some of the Akamai servers do
respond to pings, but do not respond to DNS queries."