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more on AP story on Msoft blocking Mydoom.B
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2004 10:54:42 -0500
From: Chris Gulker <cg () gulker com> Subject: Re: [IP] AP story on Msoft blocking Mydoom.B To: dave () farber net Cc: Charles Arthur <carthur () independent co uk> Dave, Charles, But, hang on, isn't all of microsoft.com actually behind Akamai's Linux caching servers? Wouldn't those actually be Linux machines that were catching and dropping the MyDoom traffic meant for MS? Here's a link to a quote from an Information Week story during last August's Blaster attack on MS where that appeared to be the case: http://sourcefrog.net/weblog/software/linux/microsoft-akamai.html And here's a Sydney Morning Herald dispatch quoting Netcraft when MS changed its DNS to point to Akamai's machines, also last August: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/08/19/1061261127586.html And, if you do a nslookup on www.microsoft.com, you get: Chris-Gulkers-Computer:~ gulker$ nslookup www.microsoft.com Server: 209.220.11.76 Address: 209.220.11.76#53 Non-authoritative answer: www.microsoft.com canonical name = www.microsoft.akadns.net. www.microsoft.akadns.net canonical name = www2.microsoft.akadns.net. Name: www2.microsoft.akadns.net Address: 207.46.144.188 Name: www2.microsoft.akadns.net Address: 207.46.144.222 Name: www2.microsoft.akadns.net Address: 207.46.156.220 Name: www2.microsoft.akadns.net Address: 207.46.244.188 Name: www2.microsoft.akadns.net Address: 207.46.249.252 Name: www2.microsoft.akadns.net Address: 207.46.250.222 Name: www2.microsoft.akadns.net Address: 207.46.250.252 Name: www2.microsoft.akadns.net Address: 207.46.134.221 whois reveals that akadns.net is registered to Akamai Technologies in Cambridge (MA).... -- Chris Gulker cg () gulker comhttp://www.gulker.com/
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