RE: Akamai

[Bob Beringer <bob.beringer () usa net>]

All,

Just found this site: http://bugmenot.com/
It will help you bypass registration, if you would like :-)

v/r
Bob Beringer

"Chris Carlson" <chris () compucounts com> wrote:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43635-2004Jun15.html

Need to register, but it's no hassle.
I'd mirror to my server, but copyright blah blah blah. 

Anyone have any more info?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: full-disclosure-admin () lists netsys com 
> [mailto:full-disclosure-admin () lists netsys com] On Behalf Of 
> james edwards
> Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 16:45
> To: full-disclosure () lists netsys com
> Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Akamai
>
> > 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
>
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