[135306] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Looking for an Akamai contact, strange DoS traffic sourcing from
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Beecher)
Thu Jan 20 17:47:25 2011
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 17:46:36 -0500
From: Tom Beecher <tbeecher@localnet.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <4D38A370.1060300@localnet.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I've received a couple of responses off list, and am now in touch with
Akamai directly.
I appreciate everyone's assistance.
On 1/20/2011 4:04 PM, Tom Beecher wrote:
> 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
