akamai yesterday - what in the world was that

Tue Feb 11 23:41:11 UTC 2020

There is a major update that has released today, how's everything looking
for everyone?

Tom

On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 10:14 AM Aaron Gould <aaron1 at gvtc.com> wrote:

> My gosh, what in the word was that coming out of my local Akamai aanp
> servers yesterday !?  starting at about 12:00 noon central time lasting
> several hours ?
>
>
>
> -Aaron
>

On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 2:02 PM Tom Deligiannis <tom.deligiannis at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Shouldn't game patches like this be released overnight during off-peak
>> hours? Fortnite releases their updates around 3 or 4am when most ISP's
>> networks are at their lowest utilization. It seems somewhat reckless to
>> release such a large patch during awake hours.
>>
>
> I can't speak for PS4 and PC, but xbox does have a setting to keep the
> console in a state that allows the device to download updates when it is
> 'off' but I've noticed that the consoles don't always follow that rule and
> the update starts downloading when the user powers on the console, which is
> usually during peak hours. If this worked properly, it would be great since
> most of the updates would download while users were at school, working,
> sleeping, etc.
>
> On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 1:36 PM Darin Steffl <darin.steffl at mnwifi.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Shouldn't game patches like this be released overnight during off-peak
>> hours? Fortnite releases their updates around 3 or 4am when most ISP's
>> networks are at their lowest utilization. It seems somewhat reckless to
>> release such a large patch during awake hours.
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 25, 2020, 12:08 PM Brandon Jackson via NANOG <nanog at nanog.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare fragged our business VOIP: US ISP blames
>>> outage on smash-hit video game rush
>>> This is Windstream, going dark..."
>>> https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/01/23/windstream_fvoip_outage/
>>>
>>> Apparently not everyone came out unscathed.
>>>
>>> ----------------------------------
>>> Brandon Jackson
>>> bjackson at napshome.net
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 10:14 AM Aaron Gould <aaron1 at gvtc.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> My gosh, what in the word was that coming out of my local Akamai aanp
>>>> servers yesterday !?  starting at about 12:00 noon central time lasting
>>>> several hours ?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -Aaron
>>>>
>>>
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