[144949] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: akamai rate limiting?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Cameron Byrne)
Thu Sep 22 01:56:22 2011
In-Reply-To: <E0DF4767-DED5-4670-92B2-B9D75485323F@ianai.net>
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 22:55:26 -0700
From: Cameron Byrne <cb.list6@gmail.com>
To: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sep 21, 2011 4:43 PM, "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net> wrote:
>
> On Sep 20, 2011, at 11:17 PM, Cameron Byrne wrote:
> > On Sep 20, 2011 7:54 PM, "Joseph Gersch" <joe.gersch@secure64.com>
wrote:
> >>
> >> Does anyone know if Akamai edgesuite servers rate limits or blacklists
> >> caching servers that query it too often? It appears that queries are
timing
> >> out if we exceed a query load to edgesuite.
> >>
> >> Does anyone at Akamai know if there are any changes to rate limiting or
> >> an abnormally high load?
>
> > Akamai traffic is dropping on my network now.
> >
> > Emailed their noc, no eta on fix
>
> Cameron & I have been in contact off-list, and all issues have been
resolved.
>
> More generally: Hopefully it will come as no surprise that Akamai has some
rate-limiting parameters configured. The Internet is a nasty place, and
every contentious provider should have protections in place.
>
> If anyone sees any problems with Akamai name servers or anything else,
noc@akamai.com is monitored 24/7 and should be able to either help directly,
or get you in touch with the right people who can.
>
Thanks to Patrick and team at Akamai for resolving this quickly
Cb
> --
> TTFN,
> patrick
>
>
