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RE: Lots of big web sites broken...SPOF

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (netadm)
Mon May 24 09:16:54 2004

Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 09:15:08 -0400
From: "netadm" <netadm@infolink.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


Just got off the phone with their NOC.

It is a system-wide problem that "looks like it may be a DOS attack".

They have no ETA as to a resolution yet.

-----Original Message-----
From: Joseph Nuara [mailto:joe@moorecap.com]=20
Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 9:09 AM
To: nanog@merit.edu
Subject: Re: Lots of big web sites broken...SPOF



Any idea on the cause or the ETA to restoration of service?

On Mon, 24 May 2004, Jon Lewis wrote:

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> Ok...who turned off Akamai?  :)
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> Sites that use Akamai for serving their images all seem to be pretty=20
> much broken this morning.  From here, I'm seeing multiple Akamai=20
> servers on multiple networks just not responding to HTTP.  They accept

> connections (some after much delay), but don't reply to requests.
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