lots of traffic starting at 3 a.m. central time

Tue Oct 15 16:08:14 UTC 2019

Here's a graph of our eyeball network traffic (CDT):

https://ibb.co/kJQYKMq

This is an unprecedented increase in traffic for us, day or night, outside
of DDOS traffic.

Our traffic monitoring system identifies this a Akamai traffic.

On 10/15/19 15:54 +0000, Luke Guillory wrote:
> That’s what I’m seeing as well, went  from 2.2G around 2:50AM CST to a peak
+of 16G.
>
> https://i.imgur.com/en89kyO.png
>
> Luke Guillory
> Vice President – Technology and Innovation
>
> From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces at nanog.org] On Behalf Of Phil Lavin
> Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2019 10:48 AM
> To: Aaron Gould; Nanog at nanog.org
> Subject: RE: lots of traffic starting at 3 a.m. central time
>
> > Anyone else see lots of traffic coming down starting at 3 a.m. central
> > time ?  all of my internet connections showed strangely larger load for a
> > few early morning hours.
> >
> > Someone, on another list, mentioned a 70% increase in traffic to Akamai
> > which seems to correlate with a new Fortnite release

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