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Akamai/Internet DNS Problems
FYI...
Another "Distributed Denial of Service" attack is underway today (15 June 2004), according to the Internet Storm Center:
Starting at around 8:30 am EDT (12:30 UTC), a number of sources started to report a widespread Akamai DNS issue. Large web sites, which use Akamai for its DNS service, no longer resolved in DNS, and became inaccessible to their users. The affected sites were Yahoo, Google, Microsoft, FedEx, Xerox, Apple and likely many others. The situation improved around 10:30 EDT, mainly because some of the affected domains temporarily switched from using Akamai DNS servers to their own DNS servers.
The problems seem to be attributable to a DDoS attack on Akamai's DNS servers, though we do not presently have the information to make a definitive assessment. According to the Akamai spokesperson, the problem was not limited to Akamai. He attributed the outage to an attack on the Internet infrastructure on a larger scale. We do not currently know of any sites that were affected by the attack without using Akamai's services.
(edit) Apparently the worst problems occurred this morning between about 0900 and 1030 EDT. Current reports indicate things have stabilized, in part because some of the affected companies have stopped using Akamai's nameservers. There still hasn't (as of 1530 PDT) been any clear statement as to what actually caused the problem.
Jim
Another "Distributed Denial of Service" attack is underway today (15 June 2004), according to the Internet Storm Center:
Starting at around 8:30 am EDT (12:30 UTC), a number of sources started to report a widespread Akamai DNS issue. Large web sites, which use Akamai for its DNS service, no longer resolved in DNS, and became inaccessible to their users. The affected sites were Yahoo, Google, Microsoft, FedEx, Xerox, Apple and likely many others. The situation improved around 10:30 EDT, mainly because some of the affected domains temporarily switched from using Akamai DNS servers to their own DNS servers.
The problems seem to be attributable to a DDoS attack on Akamai's DNS servers, though we do not presently have the information to make a definitive assessment. According to the Akamai spokesperson, the problem was not limited to Akamai. He attributed the outage to an attack on the Internet infrastructure on a larger scale. We do not currently know of any sites that were affected by the attack without using Akamai's services.
(edit) Apparently the worst problems occurred this morning between about 0900 and 1030 EDT. Current reports indicate things have stabilized, in part because some of the affected companies have stopped using Akamai's nameservers. There still hasn't (as of 1530 PDT) been any clear statement as to what actually caused the problem.
Jim
Message Edited by jimw on 06-15-2004 03:36 PM
