Re: They've done it again

On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 03:56, Larry W. Virden wrote:

> I noticed a lot of problem with both yahoo and gmail yesterday.
> It looked like both servers were being overwhelmed.

Apparently it was a lot more than that:

http://isc.incidents.org/diary.php?date=2004-06-15&isc=bc958315eb4dac481faf863a0731e54b

Starting at around 8:30 am EDT (12:30 UTC), a number of sources started
to report a widespread Akamai DNS issue. Large web sites, which use
Akamai for its DNS service, no longer resolved in DNS, and became
inaccessible to their users. The affected sites were Yahoo, Google,
Microsoft, FedEx, Xerox, Apple and likely many others. The situation
improved around 10:30 EDT, mainly because some of the affected domains
temporarily switched from using Akamai DNS servers to their own DNS
servers.

The problems seem to be attributable to a DDoS attack on Akamai's DNS
servers, though we do not presently have the information to make a
definitive assessment. According to the Akamai spokesperson, the problem
was not limited to Akamai. He attributed the outage to an attack on the
Internet infrastructure on a larger scale. We do not currently know of
any sites that were affected by the attack without using Akamai's
services.

-- 
Florin Andrei

http://florin.myip.org/



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