07/22/2021 1:47 PM
Clarín.com
Technology
Updated 07/22/2021 1:47 PM
Thousands of Internet pages around the world went down this Thursday at noon due to a failure of
Akamai
, one of the largest website redirection services.
Akamai is a content distribution service: it puts servers around the world so that corporate content can access local versions at a higher speed.
Apparently, the company experienced
problems with its DNS server
,
affecting almost 30,000 websites around the world
, from Argentine media to large online sales platforms, banks and video games.
News in development.
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