LXer: Sites knocked offline by OpenDNS freeze on Google

LXer · 01-05-2012, 11:40 AM

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Innocent websites were blocked and labelled phishers on Wednesday following an apparent conflict between OpenDNS and Google's Content Delivery Network (CDN). OpenDNS - a popular domain name lookup service* - sparked the outage by blocking access to googleapis.com, Google's treasure trove of useful scripts and apps for web developers. According to reports, a flood of errors hit pages that used Google-hosted jQuery and hundreds of thousands of sites fell over.

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H_TeXMeX_H · 01-05-2012, 02:11 PM

It was Google's fault not OpenDNS.

I think it is a good thing. Maybe people will wake up a bit and realize that Google is everywhere. If Google goes down, nearly everything goes down. I wouldn't be surprised if this googleapis that shows up everywhere tracks you.