Akamai DNS failure crippled the Internet for two hours

After a two hour DNS outage that crippled many internet services, Akamai is now reporting that it has found and fixed the problem.Akamai's Edge DNS is experiencing issues that may be causing problems across the internetAkamai runs the Edge DNS service, and earlier on Thursday, the company reported an issue with the service. No details about the issue have yet been discussed, but the company did say that it was resolved around 1PM EST. Read more...