On Thursday afternoon, several airlines, banks and technology websites were back online. Short power outage, This is the third such widespread incident discovered in just two months, which has caused alarms on social media.
The websites of Delta Air Lines, Costco Wholesale Corp, American Express, and Home Depot all malfunctioned, showing domain name system (DNS) service errors.
Some Canadian companies also stated that their websites and services have resumed full operation after experiencing technical difficulties or interruptions this afternoon.
Royal Bank of Canada, Bank of Montreal and PC Financial have all told customers on Twitter that their websites have been backed up after informing people that they were aware of technical issues and were working to resolve them.
Monitoring website Down Detector shows that after 12 pm Eastern time, the technical difficulties reported on the websites of these three companies increased sharply, as well as the Bank of Nova Scotia and Air Canada.
Cloud service provider Akamai Technologies has issued an alert regarding its “Edge DNS” service incident and pointed out that its website has been “partially disrupted.”
“We have implemented a fix for this issue, and based on current observations, the service is returning to normal operations,” it later said in a tweet.
Oracle said it is monitoring global issues related to cloud-based DNS solution providers that affect access to many Internet resources, including its own cloud services.
DNS is a service that converts a readable domain name into a machine-readable IP address, connects it to a server, and transmits the requested page on the user’s phone or laptop.
In June, global social media, government, and news websites were interrupted many times, and some reports pointed out that cloud computing service providers in the United States were malfunctioning.
According to data from the power outage tracking website Downdetector, about 3,500 users reported problems with the Airbnb website, while nearly 1,500 Home Depot users reported problems.
— Documents from Canadian media
