Akamai DNS Issue?

Randy Bush randy at psg.com
Thu Jun 17 01:19:28 UTC 2004


> We have been experiencing this problem weeks ago, this is virtually under
> the same spectrum of problems that Akamai via AKADNS.NET with their
> corporate DNS servers that carry traffic for google, yahoo, msn, etc. When
> we were asking if Akamai blacklisted/blackholed ip addresses ( we meant at
> router-level or DNS-level ) as we were experiencing lack of resolution to
> yahoo, and google. We noted that google adwords were using a different dns
> than akamai and could be seen. The problem continued intermittently
> throughout the week, yet nobody put the questions we were asking along with
> the issues taking place from Akamai within dispite our pleas, and requests
> to resolve this issue. We performed traceroutes, pings, bgp summarys making
> sure we weren't being blocked before we started pointing any fingers and
> asking any stupid questions yet we still were ignored and could of helped
> Akamai prevent such occurances from happening. It is us who is paying google
> $186,000 a quarter and Yahoo $146,000 a quarter in advertising, you'd think
> that someone would look our way and see we're having troubles rather than
> walking on while we were being mugged. Rather than being treated as mere
> babble we could of provided our logs as we were working within over 30
> looking glasses trying to see what was happening and where the problem were
> occuring.

and, TECHNICALLY, what did you learn from all the measurements?

randy




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