Akamai Servers: Normal or Weird?

Mon Jul 2 14:38:40 UTC 2001

As I said, the shape out our traffic looked exactly the same. I'm really
just curious as to what happend at this point. I'm not in a position to
actually contact Akamai myself as I'm not associated witht eh production
network. Maybe our production manager will...

Here is the graphs from the 29th.

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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