[Full-Disclosure] Akamai

[scosol]

james edwards wrote:

>>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.
> 
> 
> Akamai seems to be saying the NS was functioning:
> 
> The spokesman denied however that it was an outage and ****said that the
> Akamai name service continued to function throughout the attack**** which
> ended around two hours later.

That's BS-

See these Symantec and Apple graphs- the outage was clearly at the DNS 
level:

http://anon.scosol.speedera.net/anon.scosol/apple_outage.png
http://anon.scosol.speedera.net/anon.scosol/symantec_outage.png

It's my 24/7 job to monitor Akamai :)