Websites were briefly knocked offline Thursday after a software update triggered a glitch at network specialty firm Akamai.
July 22,2021 Websites were briefly knocked offline Thursday after a software update triggered a glitch at network specialty firm Akamai. Reports of internet outages from locations around the world spiked at website Downdetector, with US-based Akamai saying some websites were offline for as long as an hour. „A software configuration update triggered a bug in the DNS (domain name system) system, the system that directs browsers to websites,“ Akamai said in a post. „This caused a disruption impacting availability of some customer websites.
