Down Detector, a website that tracks internet issues. Dozens of other high-traffic websites including the New York Times, CNN, the Guardian, HBO Max and Hulu, could not be reached.
The issues appeared to have been caused by an outage at Fastly, a cloud service company. It reported a "global CDN disruption" on its site just before 6 a.m.
ET. Visitors trying to access CNN.com got a message that said: "Fastly error: unknown domain: cnn.com." Attempts to access the Financial Times website turned up a similar message while visits to the New York Times and U.K.
government's gov.uk site returned an "Error 503 Service Unavailable" message, along with the line "Varnish cache server," which is a technology that Fastly is built on.By 7 a.m.