akamai yesterday - what in the world was that

Ben Cannon ben at 6by7.net
Sun Jan 26 04:58:44 UTC 2020


I mean I blame it on the inadequate capacity of Windstream to handle modern TCP traffic loads - but hey. You know. 

-Ben Cannon
CEO 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC 
ben at 6by7.net <mailto:ben at 6by7.net>




> On Jan 25, 2020, at 11:35 AM, 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 <mailto: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/ <https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/01/23/windstream_fvoip_outage/> 
> 
> Apparently not everyone came out unscathed.
> 
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> Brandon Jackson
> bjackson at napshome.net <mailto:bjackson at napshome.net>
> 
> On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 10:14 AM Aaron Gould <aaron1 at gvtc.com <mailto: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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