RE: Lots of big web sites broken...SPOF

["netadm" <netadm () infolink com>]

Just got off the phone with their NOC.

It is a system-wide problem that "looks like it may be a DOS attack".

They have no ETA as to a resolution yet.

-----Original Message-----
From: Joseph Nuara [mailto:joe () moorecap com] 
Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 9:09 AM
To: nanog () merit edu
Subject: Re: Lots of big web sites broken...SPOF



Any idea on the cause or the ETA to restoration of service?

On Mon, 24 May 2004, Jon Lewis wrote:

> Ok...who turned off Akamai?  :)
>
> Sites that use Akamai for serving their images all seem to be pretty 
> much broken this morning.  From here, I'm seeing multiple Akamai 
> servers on multiple networks just not responding to HTTP.  They accept

> connections (some after much delay), but don't reply to requests.
>
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