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Re: Akamai DNS Issue?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Avleen Vig)
Tue Jun 15 21:11:01 2004
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 18:10:21 -0700
From: Avleen Vig <lists-nanog@silverwraith.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20040615130840.GA15196@ussenterprise.ufp.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 09:08:40AM -0400, Leo Bicknell wrote:
> 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?
Akamai is blaming is on a DDoS:
http://finance.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,9860421%255E14329,00.html
Of course, their share price closed up 78c rather than down :-)
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