Lamented long downtime for iTunes and App Store – Tek.no

Attempted to download an iOS app yesterday? Or maybe you should just fast with you some music or easily digested action in the form of a trepakning Hunger Games titles from iTunes? In that case you may support problems.

For some resulted in problems that iTunes and the associated stores did not respond, while others got up error messages. Large parts of the day claimed yet Apple’s own system information that everything worked as it should. It despite Apple’s own support channels and social media were full of questions and irritation over the outcome, which lasted from late morning until late evening yesterday.

Apple sorry

Now, Apple even gone out with an apology for the incident, through the TV channel CNBC. According to them lasted outcome from 10.30 in the morning, to watch 16 local time in New York time. Eastern parts of the US are currently five hours behind us. Usually the time difference of six hours, but in a few weeks each spring, they take us again with an hour because of earlier transition to daylight saving time.

– We apologize to our customers who have experienced problems with iTunes and other services today. The reason was an internal DNS error at Apple. We work to ensure that services are accessible to all, and we appreciate your patience, Apple said in a statement to the TV channel.

What is a DNS outcomes?

 DNS stands for Domain Name System, and is a kind of telephone directory consisting of servers that translates anonymous figures reaching to address you and I can remember. It is generally the usual addresses used by software and services as well, and thus they are, just as we, vulnerable outcomes.

 For example, it tek.nos IP address 87.238.40.92, your browser talk to when you read this issue here. But for that you should not have to remember it goes your browser back a DNS server to translate “www.tek.no” to the correct IP address. There are a number of such name servers in the world, and they share information between themselves, so that the information progressively becomes available to multiple users when a new address is created.

 In a typical network outcomes are not rare it really is about an outcome of DNS services, such as here. The communication is there and working, it just do not go to the right place.

Apple Store went over to manual card readers

Although the problems was perhaps most noticeable in the company’s online stores also went other parts of the company’s ecosystem down for the count. Both iCloud services and appbutikken Mac users had problems.

Apple is even heavy users of its services in Apple Store retail stores. Should you pay by card will usually one of the blåkledte emerge with an older iPhone stuck in a reader calling. Amid yesterday’s service outcomes, it appears that at least one Apple Store in desperation went back to the old fashioned “kortnuserne” which takes imprint of customers’ credit card.

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 (Source: cnbc.com)