To Err is NTL, To Really Screwup Is Akamai

MetaWraith · 15-06-2004, 18:35

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/

15-06-2004, 19:27

Do you think it affected Yahoo mail? I use outlook express to send mail using smtp.mail.yahoo.com, it is sent all right, but not reaching its destination.

Paul K · 15-06-2004, 20:00

Do you get an error message when it fails? Have you checked your server settings and that the address is correct?

15-06-2004, 21:19

No bouncing messages, and I was sending messages to my own email accounts.

Shaun · 15-06-2004, 21:35

Maybe that explains why Dells website is down then

Paul K · 15-06-2004, 21:36

Sending to your own Yahoo accounts? Did you try another account at all?

15-06-2004, 22:01

No, not to my own Yahoo account, my Freeuk and hotmail accounts.

I don't think Yahoo is working right at the moment, apart from smtp not working, when I retrieve or send using Outlook Express, it asks for my password a few times befor it does anything, sound like NTL doesn't it. May be its the server crash, or could it be part of the upgrade process?

15-06-2004, 23:11

I have found out by trial and error what has been changed:

Before I was using smtp.mail.co.uk, and it has been working since god knows when until today, I tried smtp.mail.com and now it is working.

Yahoo sent us an email saying we do not need to do anything regarding this upgrade, they forgot to mention this !!

16-06-2004, 17:52

Akamai down was due to hacker attack ! See this:
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/040615/80/evyr3.html

Paul K · 16-06-2004, 18:12

So it was the server settings then LOL Suprised they didn't mention it in the email they sent about the upgrade to the service. Glad its working now though. I set up a yahoo account a couple of months ago and it was .com then

16-06-2004, 19:09

I also have a yahoo .com account, but I never got it to work, I tried last night again, tried to access it by outlook express, and this morning, there was an email from yahoo, saying they do not support pop access unless I subscribe to their premium service, I click on the link but it just said "the service you want is not available", so I am a bit confused.

The smtp .com works fine, but the .co.uk is still not, when I say not, it is working in a way, those test emails I sent last night arrived this afternoon !!!!