Domain Name System

Two 'Domain Name System' stories October 2013 - March 2014

Apple’s online services going down intermittently, DNS problem/hack likely culprit (Update: Mostly back)

Mike Beasley Mar 12 2014 - 4:07 pm PT

Update: The bad DNS entries appear to almost completely be purged and it appears that Apple services are working correctly.

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Apple’s website and online stores are experiencing issues for many users, according to various tips and reports we’ve received across Twitter. Apple.com, iTunes, the App Store, and some other web services (but not all) are all reporting that they are unavailable.

Some services (like iMessage and Game Center) seem to be unaffected at the moment.

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iOS 7 update broke filtering protections on student iPads, say schools

Ben Lovejoy Oct 3 2013 - 6:24 am PT

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Photo: ipadsforeducation.vic.edu.au

AllThingsD is reporting that updating school iPads to iOS 7 failed to restore the supervision profiles, meaning that all of the protective filters put in place were lost.

“Apple did not realize that installing iOS 7 would remove our (and thousands of organizations across the country) safety protection measure, which now makes the iPad devices unfiltered when accessing the Internet away from school,” said a memo from the Manitou Springs (Colo.) School District 14 to parents. “In the short term, the district will be collecting iPad devices at the end of each day until the safety protection measure is reinstalled” …
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