[71531] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: akamaie dns issue
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David A.Ulevitch)
Thu Jun 17 09:31:48 2004
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.60.0406170851240.29715@canon.xyonet.com>
From: David A.Ulevitch <davidu@everydns.net>
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 06:30:25 -0700
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Jun 17, 2004, at 5:52 AM, Curtis Maurand wrote:
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> This was in my mail this am. This is why there was an akamai dns
> issue.
Shouldn't someone like CAIDA be able to verify these claims? (They look
at more than backscatter, right?)
I feel like something of this magnitude could have been noticed. Is it
possible that the attack was sophisticated enough that it was a DDoS
that was "just" big enough to do the job but small enough to get lost
in the ebb and flow of normal traffic? If so, that'd be quite a feat.
I'm sure CAIDA or other groups are going over their datasets to see if
there is anything anomalous. I'm looking forward to a third-party
report.
thanks,
davidu
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