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Keep in mind that the term 'DOS' doesn't necessarily mean 'flood of traffic'. A denial of service is just that......a _denial of service_ by any means, and I'd say that there was definitlely some service being denied. Don't think so?.....ask Google or Yahoo.
- --Ben
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. Provided you know the IP's of the | content servers | you would find they were still up. At least that was what I as seeing. | | Here is some info on Overlay Networks: | http://nms.lcs.mit.edu/ron/ | http://nms.lcs.mit.edu/ron/#papers | | Dr. Andersons "Mayday: Distributed Filtering for Internet Services " | is quite interesting. | http://nms.lcs.mit.edu/papers/mayday-usits2003/paper.html | -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux)
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