Major DNS problem?

[rogerd]

I'm seeing reports from different spots in the US of difficulty in reaching major sites like Yahoo, MSN, etc. DNS errors seem to be showing in many cases.

[bakedjake]

It's a problem affecting Akamai - all of Akamai's customers appear to be having problems.

[danieljean]

My brother in Montreal can't resolve google.com or google.ca; he just asked me as I was opening this message....

I'm just hoping it's nothing too serious :(

[bcolflesh]

Same here - I wonder if Akamai is being DOS'd again?

[PanUK]

Yahoo was out for me a while back but it's back now.

[bakedjake]

SANS reporting it now:

[isc.incidents.org...]

FYI: A lot of the major players are switching from AkaDNS to static DNS right now in hopes of getting their websites back up.

[viggen]

this site is down, i guess to get slashdotted and webmasterworldet? at the same is not such a good thing for the average server...

[christopher w]

Anyone else getting this at [search.msn.com?...]

Service Unavailable - DNS failure

The server is temporarily unable to service your request. Please try again later.

[bmcompany]

worked for me

[google.com...] doesnt work though

[bmcompany]

working again now. Didnt for about 10 minutes though (in the UK).

Maybe they exceeded their bandwidth allowance

[bmcompany]

ah, just tried MSN again and now i get the sames DNS failure

[nonprof webguy]

Something weird going on? Google, Altavista, Alltheweb are not reachable for me this morning on the East Coast. My conection is through Globix in NYC.

[outrun]

AS for msn Search DNS failure clear your cookies that should fix it.

[webmasterworld.com...]

regards,
Mark

[aravindgp]

google.com and all the related google.ca , google.co.in ,etc are down.

[nonprof webguy]

I'm still unable to reach [google.com...] but [216.239.39.99...] works just fine. I also can't see Yahoo...

The problem resolving hosts seems to be limited to search engine sites.

Google, Yahoo, Alltheweb, Altavista, Lycos, Hotbot are unreachable because their host names "cannot be found";

MSN [http://search.msn.com/] results in "Service Unavailable - DNS failure"

Teoma, Ask Jeeves, and various 'smaller' search engines are reachable however.

Seems like somebody's up to something nefarious, no?

[Sanenet]

Getting the DNS error for MSN from Spain too...

[Receptional Andy]

At the moment from the UK I get 'DNS failure' for MSN, and I also cannot reach Lycos or Hotbot. I tried MSN through a US proxy and got 'Service Unavailable'. Strange...

[sem4u]

DNS Failure on MSN search for the UK too.

[bmcompany]

For me, Google, Lycos.com, Altavista, Alltheweb dont return even the ip address from a ping.

I agreee, all other sites seem to be fine. Some sort of virus, DOS attack targeting the major engines?

Im in the UK

[bakedjake]

It's an Akamai DNS issue. Yahoo, MSN, Google, Apple, etc. all having problems this morning, because they all use Akamai.

[nonprof webguy]

The DNS system that matches named addresses to IP addresses appears to have been hacked in some way, making many of the world's major search engines, including Google, Yahoo, and MSN Search unreachable this morning.

The search engines themselves do not appear to have been hacked, since they are reachable by the numeric IP addresses of their web servers.

The attack appears to be targeting search engines but not other kinds of sites. For example, Microsoft's MSN web portal site is reachable by Internet users but its MSN search is not.

Does this phenomenon extend beyond search engines?

[bakedjake]

hacked

No, it's a problem at Akamai.

Yes, it does extend beyond search engines to any of Akamai's customers.

[kwasher]

It's an Akamai DNS issue. Yahoo, MSN, Google, Apple, etc. all having problems this morning, because they all use Akamai.

Wow. That sounds like a major 'eggs all in one basket' mistake! Why oh why would it be like that?

[bcolflesh]

Why oh why would it be like that?

Akamai is the only place w/enough infrastructure and bandwidth to support those sites - which makes them a constant target for DOS attacks.

[nonprof webguy]

Thanks for the explanation, BakedJake!

They seem to have just fixed things over at Google -- I can reach Google, Google News and MSN search. Still can't get to Yahoo, though.

[bakedjake]

fixed things

They switched from AkaDNS to static DNS. Yahoo's in the process of doing the same thing - the main pages work, but not the login system yet.

Akamai is still very broken.

[lunarboy1]

I get all the sites now, guess i'm just lucky. Comcast in Chicago.

[bakedjake]

[apnews.excite.com...]

Young called it a "large scale, international attack on Internet infrastructure." However, there was no evidence that non-Akamai infrastructure was affected.

[Winooski]

Thanks for the story link, bakedjake. And the punchline:

Shares of Akamai were up 71 cents, to $15.62, in Tuesday trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market.

[sidyadav]

Was getting errors yesterday while accessing gmail.com, now it all works good.

Have they fixed it?

Sid