Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that

[Tom Deligiannis <tom.deligiannis () gmail com>]

There is a major update that has released today, how's everything looking
for everyone?

Tom


On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 10:14 AM Aaron Gould <aaron1 () gvtc com> wrote:

> My gosh, what in the word was that coming out of my local Akamai aanp
> servers yesterday !?  starting at about 12:00 noon central time lasting
> several hours ?
>
>
>
> -Aaron

On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 2:02 PM Tom Deligiannis <tom.deligiannis () gmail com>
wrote:

> Shouldn't game patches like this be released overnight during off-peak
> > hours? Fortnite releases their updates around 3 or 4am when most ISP's
> > networks are at their lowest utilization. It seems somewhat reckless to
> > release such a large patch during awake hours.
>
> I can't speak for PS4 and PC, but xbox does have a setting to keep the
> console in a state that allows the device to download updates when it is
> 'off' but I've noticed that the consoles don't always follow that rule and
> the update starts downloading when the user powers on the console, which is
> usually during peak hours. If this worked properly, it would be great since
> most of the updates would download while users were at school, working,
> sleeping, etc.
>
> On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 1:36 PM Darin Steffl <darin.steffl () mnwifi com>
> wrote:
>
> > Shouldn't game patches like this be released overnight during off-peak
> > hours? Fortnite releases their updates around 3 or 4am when most ISP's
> > networks are at their lowest utilization. It seems somewhat reckless to
> > release such a large patch during awake hours.
> >
> > On Sat, Jan 25, 2020, 12:08 PM Brandon Jackson via NANOG <nanog () nanog org>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare fragged our business VOIP: US ISP blames
> > > outage on smash-hit video game rush
> > > This is Windstream, going dark..."
> > > https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/01/23/windstream_fvoip_outage/
> > >
> > > Apparently not everyone came out unscathed.
> > >
> > > ----------------------------------
> > > Brandon Jackson
> > > bjackson () napshome net
> > >
> > >
> > > On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 10:14 AM Aaron Gould <aaron1 () gvtc com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > My gosh, what in the word was that coming out of my local Akamai aanp
> > > > servers yesterday !?  starting at about 12:00 noon central time lasting
> > > > several hours ?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > -Aaron