Re: akamaie dns issue

[David A.Ulevitch <davidu () everydns net>]

On Jun 17, 2004, at 5:52 AM, Curtis Maurand wrote:

> 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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