Akamai DNS Issue?

Tue Jun 15 20:13:53 UTC 2004

Interesting.... At one point I did a quick sniff of my outbound traffic to 
one of their name server IP addressees and all looked like normal DNS 
queries.... But then again I didnt look that closely.

         ---Mike

At 04:07 PM 15/06/2004, Brian Conant wrote:
>Looks like DoS
>
>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/15/akamai_goes_postal/
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>Brian Conant
>Lead Security Engineer
>ADESA Corp
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu] On Behalf Of
>Mike Tancsa
>Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 2:53 PM
>To: Leo Bicknell; nanog at merit.edu
>Subject: Re: Akamai DNS Issue?
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>So anyone know what was the cause ?
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>          ---Mike
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>At 09:08 AM 15/06/2004, Leo Bicknell wrote:
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> > 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?
> >
> >--
> >        Leo Bicknell - bicknell at ufp.org - CCIE 3440
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