Full Disclosure: Re: Akamai

["scosol () scosol org" <scosol () scosol org>]

james edwards wrote:
> > I've just been told that it was a DoS.  No details.
>
> Unlikely, Akamai is an overlay network & the root content node is not
> reachable.
> Akamai can in real time spread web traffic through out their global network
> of
> servers, diluting a DoS to the point it is not significant. It is more
> likely that the
> complexity of the overlay network was the cause. Last week it was a DNS
> issue
> and it seemed much the same this week.
I don't think so- yeah a DOS against the content nodes isn't gonna do 
much but a DOS against their nameservers is fully workable.
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