Yes. It was a denial of service attack that crippled the Akamai DNS name servers on the internet backbone. Basically any website for which Akamai was responsible for providing services for resolving the IP address was unreachable (for instance, www.apple.com is actually 207.69.188.185).

It was not a Mac problem, except insofar as being a Mac user you were not able to reach sites that serve your needs as a Mac user. A PC user would not have been able to reach them either.


-----Original Message-----
From:   John Callan [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent:   Sat 6/19/2004 8:29 PM
To:     [log in to unmask]
Cc:	
Subject:             [BP] Mac Pinheads?
Is anyone else having trouble with Apple, Akamai and Virex web sites?  
Does anyone know if this is related to the Trojan Horse that attacked 
Akamai last Tuesday?

-jc


On Jun 19, 2004, at 5:55 PM, [log in to unmask] wrote:

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> In a message dated 6/19/2004 1:29:01 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
> I shall toil to do better in the future.
> That's all we ask.
>  
> Ralph

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