akamai yesterday - what in the world was that

J. Hellenthal jhellenthal at dataix.net
Sat Jan 25 22:02:15 UTC 2020


That’s what she said

-- 
 J. Hellenthal

The fact that there's a highway to Hell but only a stairway to Heaven says a lot about anticipated traffic volume.

> On Jan 25, 2020, at 13:42, Alistair Mackenzie <magicsata at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Off-peak hours are on-peak somewhere else in the world. 
> 
>> On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 7:37 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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