Akamai DNS Issue?

Wed Jun 16 01:10:21 UTC 2004

On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 09:08:40AM -0400, Leo Bicknell wrote:
> From here neither www.google.com, nor www.apple.com work.  Both
> seem to return CNAMES to akadns.net addresses (eg, www.google.akadns.net,
> www.apple.com.akadns.net), and from here all of the akadns.net
> servers listed in whois are failing to respond.
> Can someone confirm from another location?  Comments from Akamai?

Akamai is blaming is on a DDoS:
http://finance.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,9860421%255E14329,00.html

Of course, their share price closed up 78c rather than down :-)

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