Dozens of globally recognised websites went offline yesterday, including news giant CNN, due to an outage at the American based cloud service Fastly. Video / CBSDozens of globally recognised websites went offline yesterday, including news giant CNN, due to an outage at the American based cloud service Fastly. He said "it is serious because Fastly is one of the world's biggest CDNs and this was a global outage." Brief internet service outages are not uncommon and are only rarely the result of hacking or other mischief. When the outage hit, some visitors trying to access CNN.com got a message that said: "Fastly error: unknown domain: cnn.com."

Source: New Zealand Herald June 08, 2021 17:49 UTC