[nathanielc]

From the post:

> I asked Akamai to redirect my site to 127.0.0.1 — effectively relegating all traffic destined for KrebsOnSecurity.com into a giant black hole.

Since Akamai was going to drop the "shields" on the site, instead of smashing the hosting provider with the attack, DNS was pointed at localhost.

[Senji]

This seems like an ineffectual measure. Instead of giving the domain to the individual nodes in the DDoS. I'd resolve it once and pound the IP until it changes.

With a simple script curling the page and looking at the content to check if it's pointed to the right server. Ignoring unroutable or inane IPs returned by the DNS.