> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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
Actually I did not sat this part: > > james edwards wrote: > |>I've just been told that it was a DoS. No details. I would agree that a DoS can be many things. But if you are able to read for context it is clear the below is speaking of a DoS in the flood of traffic context. This part is me: > | > | > | 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) > > iD8DBQFAz2293cL8qXKvzcwRAljLAJ9cRyIW3pK0pGgjwVjkO8RXhztMwwCg8ql6 > hqZiM20cOQ6cdosafHeexic= > =YmGu > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. > Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
