To Err is NTL, To Really Screwup Is Akamai
A major ****-up at Akamai has seen the world's biggest websites vanish from view for two hours today.
From around 1.30pm, the Internet domain that Akamai uses to host content - akadns.net - disappeared and only reappeared at 3.30pm. Because a huge number of websites run through the Akamai site - including the world's four biggest, Yahoo.com, MSN.com, Google.com and Microsoft.com - when Akamai went down, so did they.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06...i_goes_postal/