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Looking for an Akamai contact, strange DoS traffic sourcing from
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Beecher)
Thu Jan 20 16:06:00 2011
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 16:04:48 -0500
From: Tom Beecher <tbeecher@localnet.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I'm looking for an Akamai contact to try and address a strange situation.
We have multiple sites across the country that aggregate 56k dialup
customers. Different sites are randomly experiencing inbound traffic
spikes that are overwhelming the uplinks to our carriers, causing DoS
situations. These spikes far exceed the bandwidth that could possibly
be used by the number of dialup customers connected. We've been able to
trace the source of the traffic to Akamai boxes, but so far have been
unable to reach anyone at Akamai to discuss the situation. We're
attempting to get payload information, but the traffic volume is making
it slow going setting up packet captures at these sites remotely.
Thanks in advance,
Tom
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Thomas Beecher II
Senior Network Administrator
LocalNet Corp.
CoreComm Internet Services
tbeecher at localnet.com
