[71525] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Akamai DNS Issue?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Wed Jun 16 21:20:05 2004
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 18:19:28 -0700
To: Pete Schroebel <crossfire@smsonline.net>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> 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
