[165720] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: iOS 7 update traffic
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Thu Sep 19 14:13:30 2013
From: Joe Abley <jabley@hopcount.ca>
In-Reply-To: <523B3B40.5070309@mykolab.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 14:06:59 -0400
To: fergdawgster@mykolab.com
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 2013-09-19, at 13:58, Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster@mykolab.com> wrote:
> Can someone please explain to a non-Apple person what the hell =
happened
> that started generating so much traffic? Perhaps I missed it in this
> thread, but I would be curious to know what iOS 7 implemented that
> caused this...
I think the inference is that iOS 7 caused the extra traffic by being =
available for download.
There are just a lot of Apple devices, and they tend to get upgraded =
more promptly than other platforms (e.g. on release day). We saw a =
similar phenomenon tracking downloads of the root zone DNSSEC trust =
anchor from data.iana.org -- we now see three million downloads per =
month, and pretty much all of those are iOS devices (or other devices =
impersonating them, which seems unlikely).
Joe
