Ahahahaaaaaaaehhhh. I probably used the wrong term for it? Sometimes I talk about shit without remembering to translate from whatever moon-language the inside of my head uses.
Akamai is a, um, content mirroring and load-balancing service, and a lot of important websites do this thing where certain parts of the site get served from whatever Akamai... thing (mirror?) is closest to you. And I think I remember there being an incident where some Akamai stuff went down and it wrecked a little havoc, but I may be mistaken.
Anyway, what ACTUALLY happened today was that the family router occasionally forgets about the existence of certain servers (with a special enmity for the Timberland Library), and I think it managed to forget about one of those Akamai mirrors. Or all of 'em. Or something else important. I dunno; it made the internet suck and then I power-cycled the thing and the problem went away.
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Akamai is a, um, content mirroring and load-balancing service, and a lot of important websites do this thing where certain parts of the site get served from whatever Akamai... thing (mirror?) is closest to you. And I think I remember there being an incident where some Akamai stuff went down and it wrecked a little havoc, but I may be mistaken.
Anyway, what ACTUALLY happened today was that the family router occasionally forgets about the existence of certain servers (with a special enmity for the Timberland Library), and I think it managed to forget about one of those Akamai mirrors. Or all of 'em. Or something else important. I dunno; it made the internet suck and then I power-cycled the thing and the problem went away.