Re: Akamai

[Ben Nelson <lists () venom600 org>]

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Keep in mind that the term 'DOS' doesn't necessarily mean 'flood of
traffic'.  A denial of service is just that......a _denial of service_
by any means, and I'd say that there was definitlely some service being
denied.  Don't think so?.....ask Google or Yahoo.

- --Ben

james edwards wrote:
|>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
|
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