Elephant in the room - Akamai

Thu Dec 5 07:48:59 UTC 2019

On Wed, Dec 4, 2019, 19:05 Kaiser, Erich <erich at gotfusion.net> wrote:

> Lets talk Akamai
>

[...]

> The last two nights the traffic levels to them has skyrocketed as well.
>
> Any insight?
>
>
> Erich Kaiser
> The Fusion Network
>

As a CDN, I would usually expect to see traffic *from* Akamai to be the
large direction.

If you're seeing your traffic *to* them skyrocketing, are you sure you
aren't carrying DDoS attack traffic at them?

CDNs aren't known for being large traffic sinks.   ^_^;;

Matt
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