[130496] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Akamai Traffic Spikes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Mon Oct 4 16:01:51 2010
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
In-Reply-To: <95373584CA10E7429E1D6B07CF2AD46401EC0F09@UFEXCH-MBXN04.ad.ufl.edu>
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 15:59:43 -0400
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Oct 4, 2010, at 3:50 PM, Scott, Robert D. wrote:
> We were trying to diagnose an issue we had around 1 PM EDST, and were =
looking at net flow data. The data indicated a significant change in our =
traffic patterns, all coming from Akamai address space. The Akamai =
utilization graphs show a near doubling of retail traffic in the same =
time period that we had traffic spikes. Does anybody have any idea what =
caused such a major surge in traffic?=20
>=20
> http://www.akamai.com/html/technology/nui/retail/charts.html
Akamai is happy to discuss traffic to individual ASes with those ASes. =
Please be sure to send e-mail from a verifiable address in that AS if =
you want information about that AS.
If you are a peer, the standard peering@akamai.com address works.
If you have Akamai boxes on your network, you can open a ticket with the =
Network Support group at NetSupport-tix@akamai.com.
Our 24/7 NOC, noc@akamai.com, can help with emergency problems, such as =
a congested link. However, you will have to reach one of the other =
groups for in-depth, historical traffic investigation.
Or you can find one of the Akamai people at NANOG. :)
As for this specific problem, I haven't an idea what happened. I can =
tell you Akamai's global traffic at 1300 EDT / 1700 UTC today was =
actually lower than yesterday's traffic at the same time. Not sure if =
that means anything, though.
--=20
TTFN,
patrick
