more on AP story on Msoft blocking Mydoom.B

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

From: Chris Gulker <cg () gulker com>
Subject: Re: [IP] AP story on Msoft blocking Mydoom.B
To: dave () farber net
Cc: Charles Arthur <carthur () independent co uk>

Dave, Charles,

But, hang on, isn't all of microsoft.com actually behind Akamai's Linux
caching servers?

Wouldn't those actually be Linux machines that were catching and
dropping the MyDoom traffic meant for MS?

Here's a link to a quote from an Information Week story during last
August's Blaster attack on MS where that appeared to be the case:

        http://sourcefrog.net/weblog/software/linux/microsoft-akamai.html

And here's a Sydney Morning Herald dispatch quoting Netcraft  when MS
changed its DNS to point to Akamai's machines, also last August:

        http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/08/19/1061261127586.html

And, if you do a nslookup on www.microsoft.com, you get:

Chris-Gulkers-Computer:~ gulker$ nslookup www.microsoft.com
Server:         209.220.11.76
Address:        209.220.11.76#53

Non-authoritative answer:
www.microsoft.com       canonical name = www.microsoft.akadns.net.
www.microsoft.akadns.net        canonical name =
www2.microsoft.akadns.net.
Name:   www2.microsoft.akadns.net
Address: 207.46.144.188
Name:   www2.microsoft.akadns.net
Address: 207.46.144.222
Name:   www2.microsoft.akadns.net
Address: 207.46.156.220
Name:   www2.microsoft.akadns.net
Address: 207.46.244.188
Name:   www2.microsoft.akadns.net
Address: 207.46.249.252
Name:   www2.microsoft.akadns.net
Address: 207.46.250.222
Name:   www2.microsoft.akadns.net
Address: 207.46.250.252
Name:   www2.microsoft.akadns.net
Address: 207.46.134.221

whois reveals that akadns.net is registered to Akamai Technologies in
Cambridge (MA)....

--
Chris Gulker
cg () gulker com
http://www.gulker.com/ 

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