LinkedIn which is considered to be one of the biggest professional working platforms, is having an outage on their website. Users are wondering what caused the mysterious outage as the website has been down for some period of time.
According to a report from the Sun, users complained that they were experiencing issues on the LinkedIn website. The LinkedIn website suggested it was a server issue as it continued saying “Unable to locate the server, the server does not have a DNS entry”.
DNS is a domain name system, it translates human readable domain names into specific machine readable IP addresses so that the user can get the requested internet resources. It connects web browsers with websites on the internet. It is a key component when browsing on the web.
There have been over 5,000 complaints in the United States and there have also been complaints from the United Kingdom, the report stated. Many users complained on Twitter, with one user tweeting: “Not LinkedIn going down when I have to post analytics to start the weekend.”
Another user tweeted: “Not so happy Monday, LinkedIn seems to be down (LinkedIn) but the app still works.” Some users got worried that the website had been compromised by hackers.
Not the First Linkedin is Having DNS Issues
In June 2013, LinkedIn had the same issue with the DNS server outage on their website. LinkedIn Help stated on Twitter that their site was recovering from a DNS issue and their team was working on it. “Our site is now recovering for some members. We determined it was a DNS issue and we’re continuing to work on it. Thanks for your patience.” Their website was down for about an hour.
The LinkedIn Help team is yet to respond to this current issue. However, users must’ve contacted them from various regions about their complaints.
