Akamai Servers: Normal or Weird?

Mon Jul 2 14:28:13 UTC 2001

If they're paying you by the megabit, is anyone complaining? :)

-C

On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 05:41:17PM -0400, Chris Rapier wrote:
> 
> Our graph looks almost exactly like that. Not the same magnitude but the
> same shape.
> Same shape and if I was concious enough to work out the time difference
> that might tell us more.
> 
> Dunno, the UDP traffic from server to server almost makes it seem like
> something less than normal. TCP I could imagine but UDP? Maybe there was
> some large streaming media event? heh. maybe they were distributing the
> roskiled goth festival in norway... :)
> 
> 
> 
> Simon Lyall wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Chris Rapier wrote:
> > > Is something funny happening with them lately or is it normal to see
> > > 45Mbps of UDP traffic between akamai servers (45Mps peak, average for
> > > the past 24 hours is around 15Mbps. Prior to that it wasn't enough to
> > > show up in our graphs). More information: Our akamai farm is the one
> > > recieving all of the data - its coming into our various akamai hosts on
> > > port 1455.
> > 
> > Our Akimai's are doing a bit of traffic in the last 6 hours as well, the
> > overnight shift noticed and logged it. I've attached a mrtg graph that is
> > showing the whole thing (green to our farm, blue is from).
> > 
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