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So far it seems to be an Akamai internal DNS look up problem. That is, it seems if they need to resolve the hostname of the origin to serve a page they front for, it fails but I haven't seen any actual DNS failures on my side or other places, just inside Akamai-served pages saying they failed to resolve with an Akamai reference code.

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It's not just their internal DNS, I was about to order some gear online but the hostname for my bank no longer resolves.

Ah, I hadn't come across them. My feeling is still a minority of sites use Akamai's DNS for their public-facing names, so probably those sites would be affected that way. Although either way the site is down once the cache expires.

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