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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.
If I read it right, one of their problems was their lack of diversity -- they all use Akamai's proprietary DNS.
"No one likes working in a hamster wheel, and your shop smells of cedar shavings from here." - TaleSpinner
like Afternet
they are totally hosed right now due to a huge ddos.
see http://www.afternet.org/ for all gory the details
anime+manga together at last.. in real time.