<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">We use the Akamai DNS service and received the outage messages below from them. It did not appear to affect us.<p style="color:rgb(65,65,65);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><strong>[18:30 UTC on July 22, 2021] Update:</strong></p><p style="color:rgb(65,65,65);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span class="gmail-il">Akamai</span> experienced a disruption with our DNS service on July 22, 2021. The disruption began at 15:45 UTC and lasted for approximately one hour. Affected customer sites were significantly impacted for connections that were not established before the incident began.</p><p style="color:rgb(65,65,65);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">Our teams identified that a change made in a mapping component was causing the issue, and in order to mitigate it we rolled the change back at approximately 16:44 UTC. We can confirm this was not a cyberattack against <span class="gmail-il">Akamai</span>'s platform. Immediately following the rollback, the platform stabilized and DNS services resumed normal operations. At this time the incident is resolved, and we are monitoring to ensure that traffic remains stable.</p><p style="color:rgb(65,65,65);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><strong>[16:50 UTC on July 22, 2021] Mitigated:</strong></p><p style="color:rgb(65,65,65);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">We can confirm that the issue is now mitigated as of 16:44 UTC on July 22, 2021 and no longer occurring.</p><p style="color:rgb(65,65,65);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">We have implemented a fix for this issue and based on current observations, the service is resuming normal operations. We will continue to monitor to ensure that the impact has been fully mitigated.</p><p style="color:rgb(65,65,65);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">We apologize for the impact and thank you for your patience and continued support. We are committed to making continuous improvements to make our systems better and prevent recurrence. If you have further questions, please post them on  <a href="https://community.akamai.com/customers/s/feed/0D54R00008406MzSAI" target="_blank">https://community.<span class="gmail-il">akamai</span>.com/customers/s/feed/0D54R00008406MzSAI</a>.</p><p style="color:rgb(65,65,65);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><strong>[16:22 UTC on July 22, 2021] In-Progress:</strong></p><p style="color:rgb(65,65,65);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">We are aware of an emerging issue where customers are experiencing DNS failures on their websites. We are actively investigating the issue and will provide another update within the next 60 minutes. If you have questions or are experiencing impact due to this issue, please contact <span class="gmail-il">Akamai</span> Technical Support.</p><div><span style="color:rgb(65,65,65);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">In the interest of time, we are providing you the most current information available, which is subject to changes, corrections, and updates.</span><strong style="color:rgb(65,65,65);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">[16:22 UTC on July 22, 2021] In-Progress:</strong><br></div><div><p style="color:rgb(65,65,65);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">We are aware of an emerging issue where customers are experiencing DNS failures on their websites. We are actively investigating the issue and will provide another update within the next 60 minutes. Please view the "Notifications" section on the Control Center home page for further updates.</p><p style="color:rgb(65,65,65);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">In the interest of time, we are providing you the most current information available, which is subject to changes, corrections, and updates.</p></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"> Michael Thompson<br> WAN/LAN Engineer<br> Director of Technical Services<br> Rutherford County Schools<br> Office Phone (Direct): 828-288-2442<br> Fax: 828-453-8291<br> E-mail: <a href="mailto:mike@rcsnc.org" target="_blank">mike@rcsnc.org</a></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 3:52 PM Andy Ringsmuth <<a href="mailto:andy@andyring.com">andy@andyring.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Surprised I haven’t see any mention of it here yet.<br>
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<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/22/several-major-websites-go-down-in-widespread-internet-outage.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/22/several-major-websites-go-down-in-widespread-internet-outage.html</a><br>
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<a href="https://www.the-sun.com/news/3331697/fedex-ups-airbnb-delta-airlines-website-down-outrage/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.the-sun.com/news/3331697/fedex-ups-airbnb-delta-airlines-website-down-outrage/</a><br>
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<a href="https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/widespread-outage-disrupts-major-retail-financial-travel-websites-worldwide/3168859/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/widespread-outage-disrupts-major-retail-financial-travel-websites-worldwide/3168859/</a><br>
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Andy Ringsmuth<br>
5609 Harding Drive<br>
Lincoln, NE 68521-5831<br>
(402) 304-0083<br>
<a href="mailto:andy@andyring.com" target="_blank">andy@andyring.com</a><br>
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