Apple's iTunes, App Store, and iCloud Experiencing Issues [Update: Google ... - Mac Rumors

iCloud, iTunes, and other Apple websites are currently experiencing issues, with many users indicating an inability to access Apple services. Some users are having having trouble loading Apple's System Status page, which is not displaying any information on the outage. iTunes is displaying connectivity error messages, as is the App Store on iOS devices, with users unable to load either service.

The services appear to have been down for approximately 20 minutes at the time of posting and it is unclear how long the outage might last. At the current time, iMessage appears to be working fine.

Update 4:12 PM PT: As noted in our forums, it appears the outage is caused by a Google DNS issue. Apple services and web pages are accessible after turning off Google DNS.

Update 4:33 PM PT: The issue appears to have been resolved and all Apple services are now functioning as normal with Google DNS.

Funnily enough, it's actually Google DNS that is the problem..

It appears that they dropped the entire apple.com zone file about 30 minutes ago. A search on twitter will verify a bunch of other people having the same problem: http://ift.tt/1iClVtf

Google DNS:

[CODE]dig apple.com @8.8.8.8

; DiG 9.8.3-P1 apple.com @8.8.8.8

;; global options: +cmd

;; Got answer:

;; ->>HEADERHEADER

That is bad news. Hope they can fix it soon enough.

Can't even load apple.com (http://apple.com) here.

EDIT: Seems to be a Google DNS issue.

For some reason the Apple System page is not indicating any issues.

I'm not experiencing any problems...possibly regional?

Funnily enough, it's actually Google DNS that is the problem..

It appears that they dropped the entire apple.com zone file about 30 minutes ago. A search on twitter will verify a bunch of other people having the same problem: http://ift.tt/1iClVtf

Can't even load apple.com (http://apple.com) here.

EDIT: Seems to be a Google DNS issue.

I think that was it. Google DNS. I use it at home and at the office. I just removed it from my AirPort Extreme and went with my ISP's DNS, restarted and everything is back.

Yep, as others have stated, switching my router from Google DNS to my ISP DNS solved my problem.

Ok here in UK using ISP DNS.

Tried Google DNS and it fails.

http://ift.tt/VDpOMU all checks out for now

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