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Comment by davidcollantes | Hacker News Reader

My Mac started telling me that I need to update Apple ID settings about 30 minutes ago, but when I click "Continue", System Settings freezes and can't be closed. I think it's because gsa.apple.com isn't responding. When I ping that address, it resolves to Akamai, which makes me wonder if this is an Apple outage or Akamai outage. Neither company's status dashboard reports any issues right now.

    PING gsa.idms-apple.com.akadns.net (17.32.194.34): 56 data bytes
    Request timeout for icmp_seq 0
    Request timeout for icmp_seq 1
    Request timeout for icmp_seq 2
    Request timeout for icmp_seq 3
    Request timeout for icmp_seq 4
    Request timeout for icmp_seq 5

My guess: an Apple outage, if it was Akamai there would be a lot more services impacted.

And that only shows that the DNS is Akamai, the IP itself is Apple's

The web page itself at https://icloud.com/ comes up, but trying to login renders "Connection error iCloud encountered an error while trying to connect to the server".

Same for me, and auth from an iPhone fails as well. Downdetector shows a spike starting a few mins ago.

More: https://downdetector.com/status/icloud/

obligatory "but it's all green!" post

https://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/

That's the first thing I checked, indeed. All green is very misleading. :-)

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