Several major websites were affected by a widespread internet outage on Thursday morning. The brief outage resulted in thousands of websites loading slowly or not at all.
Website ZeroHedge reported that more than 32,000 websites were down worldwide as a massive DNS failure originated a little after 8 a.m.
The websites affected by the Thursday morning technical difficulties ranged from Delta Air Lines to British Airways, Capital One to Go Daddy and UPS.
CNBC reported that Akamai, a content distribution network, which helps distribute data throughout the internet, said by about 12:50 p.m. Eastern Time [9:50 a.m. Pacific Time], it had fixed the issue and the service seemed to be back to normal.
Akamai said on its website Thursday morning it was investigating “an emerging issue with the Edge DNS service.”
The news station also reported that Oracle, a cloud service provider, identified Akamai as the source of the issue.
The sites were either loading slowly or showing the message “DNS failure.”