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Re: Akamai


From: scosol <scosol () scosol org>
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 18:36:13 -0700

james edwards wrote:

I don't think so- yeah a DOS against the content nodes isn't gonna do much but a DOS against their nameservers is fully workable.


Akamai seems to be saying the NS was functioning:

The spokesman denied however that it was an outage and ****said that the
Akamai name service continued to function throughout the attack**** which
ended around two hours later.

That's BS-

See these Symantec and Apple graphs- the outage was clearly at the DNS level:

http://anon.scosol.speedera.net/anon.scosol/apple_outage.png
http://anon.scosol.speedera.net/anon.scosol/symantec_outage.png

It's my 24/7 job to monitor Akamai :)

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