Akamai: How They Fought Recent DDoS Attacks

yootje writes "Infoworld is running an interesting article about Akamai and the DDoS attack that hit the network of Akamai Tuesday. According to this article one of the defenses of Akamai is the big diversity of their hardware: 'We deliberately use different operating systems, different name server implementations, different kinds of routers, different kinds of switches, different kinds of CPUs, and especially, different operational procedures.' So says Paul Vixie, architect of BIND and president of the ITC." Yootje points to another article on this subject as well, this one at Internetnews.com. Update: 07/07 19:38 GMT by T : Note that Vixie's quote here is actually presented out of context; he was commenting by way of contrast on the diversity of the root DNS servers, not Akamai's content-serving system.

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YOU REDUNDANT PIECE OF SHIT

[Anonymous Coward]

Way to post what has already been posted. Go kill yourself!

Re:The submitter is WRONG.

[stratjakt]

You're right. Akamai runs that shitty linux system. No wonder they were so easily knocked out.

The submitter is WRONG and you are REDUNDANT

[Anonymous Coward]

Why not read what people have posted, you redundant piece of shit. Do the world a favor. Kill yourself.

Read the fucking article before submitting it

[Anonymous Coward]

Way to go on reading and comprehending the fucking article, yootje. Looks like you were more interested in getting something you submitted posted on Slashdot. e-penis++, fag.

And Timothy: you are a moron. How the fuck did you get a job "writing" for Slashdot? Regardless of what the answer is, I'll still hate you.