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Re: Akamai
From: "james edwards" <hackerwacker () cybermesa com>
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 14:44:45 -0600
I've just been told that it was a DoS. No details.
Unlikely, Akamai is an overlay network & the root content node is not reachable. Akamai can in real time spread web traffic through out their global network of servers, diluting a DoS to the point it is not significant. It is more likely that the complexity of the overlay network was the cause. Last week it was a DNS issue and it seemed much the same this week. Provided you know the IP's of the content servers you would find they were still up. At least that was what I as seeing. Here is some info on Overlay Networks: http://nms.lcs.mit.edu/ron/ http://nms.lcs.mit.edu/ron/#papers Dr. Andersons "Mayday: Distributed Filtering for Internet Services " is quite interesting. http://nms.lcs.mit.edu/papers/mayday-usits2003/paper.html -- James H. Edwards Routing and Security Administrator At the Santa Fe Office: Internet at Cyber Mesa jamesh () cybermesa com noc () cybermesa com (505) 795-7101 _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
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