Akamai: How They Fought Recent DDoS Attacks 231
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.
Wow (Score:5, Funny)
That's shocking!
Sys admins (Score:5, Funny)
Wow, your sys admins and help desk must LOVE supporting that!
Wow... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I R 0wn j00 (Score:4, Funny)
Just askin you big hacker, you.
Re:Wow... (Score:2, Funny)
Jeremy
Re:Trade-Off - TCO (Score:3, Funny)
Just ask MS, they will tell you.
Re:Wow... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:MacOS classic? (Score:3, Funny)
You mean like a Quadra 950 (~35lbs.) or a pallet of hamburger helper?
or... (Score:5, Funny)
that's been proven to be an effective, system independent DoS attack (even if the attack was unintentional or brought about by the owner)
Different OS's? (Score:2, Funny)
So what they're saying is... (Score:4, Funny)
It sounds like a recipe for success!
Good old PR spin - nothing like it... (Score:5, Funny)
CTO: "Actually, sir, the real question is why did we lose less than half of our service. The answer is that I've, uh, been strategically using different systems and components throughout the enterprise on purpose to prevent drastic losses. No one else could have even kept 10% of their machines up under that DDOS."
Boss: "I knew I could count on you for the right PR spin job. Go back and think up some other good excuses."
-Adam
Re:Quote misattributed (Score:3, Funny)
The editors don't read the articles, so why should the submitters be subjected to the same burden?
I was way off... (Score:3, Funny)
'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.'
Re:Security through Stupidity (Score:4, Funny)
ver^M
MS DOS 6.22
"wtf?"
extra secure systems (Score:2, Funny)
They called me crazy for using Windows 95, 98, 2000, CE and ME . . . I'm invincible! Bwahahaha!
Re:Quote misattributed (Score:3, Funny)
Fuck (Score:5, Funny)
Re:wtf? (Score:3, Funny)
No, no, no... it's just pronounced "Paul Vixie" but the correct spelling is V-I-N-T C-E-R-F.
Same cause as recent big electrical blackouts (Score:2, Funny)
(BOFH types RETURN, followed by)
"Oh Shit!"
Re:Obligatory Simpsons Reference (Score:2, Funny)
(Yes, reliable. It only crashes when you are doing something, so it gets rebooted often enough ;)
That's it. My reading comprehension is gone. I'm going to bed now and hopefully not dream of anything remotely related to this Daliesque image.