[164981] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: CNN broadcasting online free? Hogging my bandwidth...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Sheldon)
Wed Aug 14 21:43:01 2013
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 20:42:26 -0500
From: Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon@cox.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <CpRM1m01T1Una3W01pRPGx>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 8/14/2013 8:24 PM, Zachary McGibbon wrote:
> I noticed my bandwidth graphs were a little out of whack tonight and after
> much digging through pcap files I found that my chrome tab with 'cnn.com'
> had a live stream of cnn playing on the right side halfway down.
>
> It seems this started around 8am this morning and it was a macromedia tcp
> flash stream on port 1935.
>
> Did they decide to give free CNN to everyone today? Or is this a goof?
> Either way it chewed up a lot of my bandwidth which doesn't come cheap
> here in Canada, eh?
>
> Also, sometimes it says:
>
> Watch CNN will resume momentarily
>
> on the feed but it's still pushing traffic. What a pain!
>
> Turning off the 'free' Piers Morgan feed now...
Trying to get their "numbers" up off the floor?
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