Re: Akamai DNS Issue?

2004-06-16 Thread Joe Abley
On 15 Jun 2004, at 21:28, Stewart, William C (Bill), RTSLS wrote: Daniel Golding suggested that the problem was that many folks are sharing Akamai's magic DNS algorithms. This doesn't appear to be a problem with magic algorithms - it appears that they're sharing the _servers_, and that the

Re: Akamai DNS Issue?

2004-06-16 Thread Mark Radabaugh
Workarounds and defences already exist, and have been in use for a long time. long list removed Failures in master servers can be mitigated by having several of them; simultaneous failure of all master servers can be managed to some degree using appropriate SOA timers, so that slave

Cisco Security Advisory: Cisco IOS Malformed BGP packet causes reload

2004-06-16 Thread Cisco Systems Product Security Incident Response Team
peer, it would be difficult to inject a malformed packet. Cisco has made free software available to address this problem. This advisory is available at http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20040616-bgp.shtml. Affected Products = Vulnerable Products This issue affects all

Re: Akamai DNS Issue?

2004-06-16 Thread Joe Abley
On 16 Jun 2004, at 10:13, Mark Radabaugh wrote: But you don't say how to avoid failures caused by massive confusion when maintaining a excessively complicated system By isolating the complexity to small pockets, each of which is largely invisible to the rest of the system, and reducing the

Re: Akamai DNS Issue?

2004-06-16 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Mark Radabaugh wrote: But you don't say how to avoid failures caused by massive confusion when maintaining a excessively complicated system I don't have much to offer for the excessively complicated case (which I think the instant case is an example of), but there are cases as complex and

Re: Akamai DNS Issue?

2004-06-16 Thread Daniel Golding
On 6/15/04 9:28 PM, Stewart, William C (Bill), RTSLS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel Golding suggested that the problem was that many folks are sharing Akamai's magic DNS algorithms. This doesn't appear to be a problem with magic algorithms - it appears that they're sharing the _servers_,

Akamai an Inside Job?

2004-06-16 Thread David Kennedy CISSP
http://www.overclockersclub.com/?read=8733819 The Akamai attacks started in the morning and it was detected by Keynote Systems, a web tracking company that is able to track the load and bandwidth on the Internet. According to Keynote they saw an Internet performance issue this morning ... They

RE: Akamai an Inside Job?

2004-06-16 Thread dunger-nanog1087
David Kennedy CISSP wrote: The Akamai attacks started in the morning and it was detected by Keynote Systems, a web tracking company that is able to track the load and bandwidth on the Internet. According to Keynote they saw an Internet performance issue this morning ... Here's a link to a

RE: Akamai an Inside Job?

2004-06-16 Thread Rodney Green
He did provide a link -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 12:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Akamai an Inside Job? David Kennedy CISSP wrote: The Akamai attacks started in the

Re: Akamai an Inside Job?

2004-06-16 Thread Brian Mulvaney
At 08:23 AM 6/16/2004, David Kennedy CISSP wrote: http://www.overclockersclub.com/?read=8733819 The Akamai attacks started in the morning and it was detected by Keynote Systems, a web tracking company that is able to track the load and bandwidth on the Internet. According to Keynote they saw an

Asia Pacific Peering Guidebook Reviewer Request

2004-06-16 Thread William B. Norton
Hi all - If you have no interest in Internet Peering in Asia, read no further. Otherwise,... Over the last year I have been working with the Peering Coordinator Community, particularly those that have built into and throughout Asia, to document what is *different* about peering in Asia as

Re: Akamai DNS Issue?

2004-06-16 Thread Pete Schroebel
I saw this coming two days ago but, nobody [Called]. Akamai's DNS was failing apart and we thought that we were just being dns blackhole! No, you didn't. You saw a different problem, asked me about it, and didn't send back any of the info I asked for. Don't let truth and facts get in

Re: Akamai DNS Issue?

2004-06-16 Thread John Payne
--On Wednesday, June 16, 2004 1:26 PM -0400 Pete Schroebel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I saw this coming two days ago but, nobody [Called]. Akamai's DNS was failing apart and we thought that we were just being dns blackhole! No, you didn't. You saw a different problem, asked me about it, and

Re: Akamai an Inside Job?

2004-06-16 Thread David Kennedy CISSP
At 09:41 AM 6/16/2004 -0700, Brian Mulvaney wrote: At 08:23 AM 6/16/2004, David Kennedy CISSP wrote: http://www.overclockersclub.com/?read=8733819 [DMK: Source, beyond overclockers, unknown, reliability and accuracy unknown.] That's nonsense David. Keynote measurements can distinguish

Re: Akamai an Inside Job?

2004-06-16 Thread Daniel Golding
On 6/16/04 11:23 AM, David Kennedy CISSP [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.overclockersclub.com/?read=8733819 The Akamai attacks started in the morning and it was detected by Keynote Systems, a web tracking company that is able to track the load and bandwidth on the Internet. According

Travelling the backway to Google

2004-06-16 Thread Duncan Meakins
Is anyone aware of a non-akamized way to access google? Considering we've had a few Akamai issues in the past couple months it could proove handy in the future to be able to access google through non-Akamai channels. I thought maybe the API access they provide may bypass it, but with a little

Re: Akamai DNS Issue?

2004-06-16 Thread Patrick W . Gilmore
On Jun 16, 2004, at 1:26 PM, Pete Schroebel wrote: With the Akamai issue we were seeing only partial resolution and since we pay Google a big wack of dough each month it is important for there network to resolve. Additionally, we have the same contracts with Overture/Yahoo/SBC so they are

Re: Travelling the backway to Google

2004-06-16 Thread Chris Yarnell
I'd suggest working with Google if you feel you need some sort of out of band access to them rather than asking here. I'm sure Google doesn't need thousands of people picking weird random ways to access their clusters. :) Is anyone aware of a non-akamized way to access google? Considering

Re: Travelling the backway to Google

2004-06-16 Thread Tony Rall
On Wednesday, 2004-06-16 at 13:56 MST, Duncan Meakins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is anyone aware of a non-akamized way to access google? http://216.239.57.104 (No guarantee that that address will continue to work, but it currently goes to one of their servers in Calif.) Tony Rall

Re: Travelling the backway to Google

2004-06-16 Thread Jared Mauch
On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 04:28:37PM -0700, Tony Rall wrote: On Wednesday, 2004-06-16 at 13:56 MST, Duncan Meakins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is anyone aware of a non-akamized way to access google? http://216.239.57.104 (No guarantee that that address will continue to work, but it

Re: Travelling the backway to Google

2004-06-16 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Jared Mauch wrote: I think the question is truly this: some of the dns responses that i saw had low ttls, should they use a longer ttl? the problems i saw were related to the data expiring from the cache, some of this is to workaround broken clients/resolvers that will

Re: Akamai DNS Issue?

2004-06-16 Thread Pete Schroebel
- Original Message - From: Patrick W.Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Patrick W.Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 5:32 PM Subject: Re: Akamai DNS Issue? On Jun 16, 2004, at 1:26 PM, Pete Schroebel wrote: With the Akamai issue we were

Re: Travelling the backway to Google

2004-06-16 Thread Tony Rall
On Wednesday, 2004-06-16 at 20:02 AST, support services [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 04:28:37PM -0700, Tony Rall wrote: http://216.239.57.104 Yes, the old servers are still there but, they are out of date and not in-sync with any other servers. They can act as

Re: Akamai DNS Issue?

2004-06-16 Thread Randy Bush
We have been experiencing this problem weeks ago, this is virtually under the same spectrum of problems that Akamai via AKADNS.NET with their corporate DNS servers that carry traffic for google, yahoo, msn, etc. When we were asking if Akamai blacklisted/blackholed ip addresses ( we meant at

Re: Akamai DNS Issue?

2004-06-16 Thread Sean Butler
We have been experiencing this problem weeks ago, this is virtually under the same spectrum of problems that Akamai via AKADNS.NET with their corporate DNS servers that carry traffic for google, yahoo, msn, etc. When we were asking if Akamai blacklisted/blackholed ip addresses ( we meant at

Re: Akamai DNS Issue?

2004-06-16 Thread Hannigan, Martin
Ok, but isn't this one of those things taken up better with google and yahoo sales people? Operationally, they have a large impact and they responded well. If you only knew how many DDOS attacks your providers (all encompassed) see and soak up, you'd be surprised. YMMV -M Regards,

Computerworld: QA: Tom Leighton, chief scientist at Akamai

2004-06-16 Thread David Kennedy CISSP
QA: Tom Leighton, chief scientist at Akamai He talked about the nature of yesterday's apparent DDoS attack News Story by Jaikumar Vijayan JUNE 16, 2004 (COMPUTERWORLD) - Akamai Technologies Inc. said today that the Domain Name System problems it encountered yesterday were the result of a