Enlarge / “Dude, it can’t be DNS. ” “How much you wanna bet? ” (credit: PeopleImages via Getty Images ) A massive Internet outage today has downdetector. com covered in warnings for popular websites and services, such as the PlayStation Network, Steam, Fidelity Investments, Airbnb, FedEx, LastPass, UPS, Amazon, plus others. The root cause of […]
Enlarge / The United Kingdom government’s official website was one of those affected by this morning’s outage. The cryptic “Guru Mediation” message shown is an untrapped, unskinned error returned from the Varnish cache server powering the Fastly CDN. (credit: Leon Neal via Getty Images) For roughly an hour this morning—6 am to 7 am EDT, […]
Ten years ago, a desperate Egyptian government, led by then-President Hosni Mubarak, ordered the nation’s Internet to be shut down, a ploy to stymie pro-democracy protests. The move backfired. The countrywide service outage, ironically, drew more people outdoors to learn what was going on. As bigger crowds took to city streets, the so-called Arab Spring […]