] An Akamai spokesman said it noticed an attack against
] four unnamed "customers" that rendered their sites
] inaccessible. Akamai said that the strike against those
] customers in turn caused a failure of its own domain name
] server (DNS) system, which translates word-based URLs
] into numeric Web addresses to link surfers to company
] sites.
]
] "We do know that attack was against four sites that
] happened to be Akamai customers," said company spokesman
] Jeff Young. "But I don't know if the intent was to go
] after Akamai or go after Web properties that happened to
] be customers of ours."