Elephant in the room - Akamai

Bryan Holloway bryan at shout.net
Thu Dec 5 09:15:52 UTC 2019


On 12/5/19 8:48 AM, Matthew Petach wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, Dec 4, 2019, 19:05 Kaiser, Erich <erich at gotfusion.net 
> <mailto: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


I think he meant inbound (from). We also saw the same thing.



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