I don't think so- yeah a DOS against the content nodes isn't gonna do much but a DOS against their nameservers is fully workable.
Akamai seems to be saying the NS was functioning:
The spokesman denied however that it was an outage and ****said that the Akamai name service continued to function throughout the attack**** which ended around two hours later.
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