[108438] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 143.228.0.0/16 and house.gov
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jean-Fran=E7ois_Mez)
Thu Oct 2 17:11:43 2008
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:11:35 -0400
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jean-Fran=E7ois_Mezei?= <jfmezei@vaxination.ca>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <48E52A4E.7020209@gmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
William Allen Simpson wrote:
> But I can dig and traceroute. I'm pretty sure this isn't an ideal (or
> standard conforming) setup. But it shouldn't have been swamped, as seems to
> be akamaized.
I don't have traceroutes kept, but during that night when Pelosi
announced the bill was available for all to download, I tried to get to
that page and it was extremely slow. Doing a traceroute didn't *seem* to
end at an akamai point. My memory could be in error.
Question:
Is it possible to setup an akamai feed in hours once you know your
website is to be swamped ?
Obviously, the system managers there might not have been warned in
advance that the politicians would place a huge load on their servers.
But once they realised it, is it conceivable that they quickly setup an
akamai feed ? Or is that something which takes weeks to setup ?
