Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that

["J. Hellenthal via NANOG" <nanog () nanog org>]

That’s what she said

-- 
 J. Hellenthal

The fact that there's a highway to Hell but only a stairway to Heaven says a lot about anticipated traffic volume.

> On Jan 25, 2020, at 13:42, Alistair Mackenzie <magicsata () gmail com> wrote:
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> Off-peak hours are on-peak somewhere else in the world. 
>
> > On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 7:37 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

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