'International Attack' Hits Big Web Sites

[benburch]

http://www.sanluisobispo.com/mld/sanluisobispo/business/8928742.htm

Posted on Tue, Jun. 15, 2004

'International Attack' Hits Big Web Sites

MATTHEW FORDAHL

Associated Press

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Several major Web sites - including Yahoo!, Microsoft and Google - were inaccessible at times early Tuesday due to what the company that distributes them online called an attack.

The problem began about 9 a.m. EDT and lasted less than two hours, said Jeff Young, a spokesman for Akamai Technologies Inc., whose network of servers mirror some of the Web's top destinations to improve their performance.

Young called it a "large scale, international attack on Internet infrastructure." However, there was no evidence that non-Akamai infrastructure was affected.

Keynote Systems Inc., a Web performance measurement service, said the only sites where it saw trouble Tuesday were those served by Akamai.

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[Misinformed01]

1. Link!

This is really fascinating

[benburch]

2. Already did!

I fumbled and hit save too soon... Fixed on edit

[Misinformed01]

3. Got it

well, you were right then....

[Mithras61]

4. Looks to me like AKAMAI was DDOSed...

I haven't run into any difficulties that weren't fixed by running my own DNS server...

[htuttle]

5. Take off every Zig!

For great justice!

[benburch]

6. All your root nameservers...

are belong to us!!!

[Parche]

7. terra ists

Those terra ists are everywhere