akamai yesterday - what in the world was that

Sat Jan 25 19:35:28 UTC 2020

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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