“An early morning Internet attack on Tuesday took down the Web sites of Microsoft, Google, Apple Computer and Yahoo, a tracking company said. The sites went down at 5:30 a.m. Pacific time and did not all return too normal until about 7:45 a.m. Pacific, Keynote Systems Inc. said. The outage dropped Keynote’s availability rating for the Internet, which is based on the performance of 40 large companies, to 81 percent. The figure rarely goes below 99 percent,” Antone Gonsalves reports for TechWeb News.
“It was not clear whether the Internet attack occurred against the individual web sites, or web infrastructure company Akamai, which is responsible for directing traffic to the sites… During the peak of the outage, the availability of the four companies’ web sites dropped as lows as 20 percent, Keynote said,” Gonsalves reports.
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seems obvious to me who is to blame.
i’m sorry 🙁
It was iTMS in UK, Fr, D … buyin’ frenzy.
and what OS does Akamai’s servers use?
If you check at [url=http://www.netcraft.com]http://www.netcraft.com[/url] for the Apple site, it is running on MacOS X and [url=http://www.akamai.com]http://www.akamai.com[/url] is serving over Linux. However, time ago, I knew the Apple site was served by Akamai on Solaris. The interesting thing here is the kind of attack and the objetive: akamai network or the companies Akamai serves.
Mac Beth you naughty girl. You’re supposed to warn us before uploading your pictures to the voyeurweb.
Linux
How was this attack carried out? Does anybody know?
Apple was an early investor in Akamai.
In most cases, Akamai doesn’t “host” the website, it caches the site on their thousands of widely dispersed servers so the content is closer to the visitor which speeds up the delivery. At the time Apple invested, this was very important for all their movie trailers.
A lot of high traffic sites use an Akamai like service.
I should add…it usually doesn’t cache the entire site, only the most widely requested content.
No wonder I was having iTunes problems yesterday as well as the browser saying it could not find the domain apple.com.
sorry, but the jokes on you… its the 20 dvd set of me brushing my teeth every night.