[165872] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: iOS 7 update traffic
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Tue Sep 24 09:32:52 2013
From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
In-Reply-To: <3561395.8489.1379997952336.JavaMail.root@benjamin.baylink.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 09:32:22 -0400
To: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sep 24, 2013, at 12:45 AM, Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> wrote:
> Strawman, Randy.
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> Clearly, the Internet is *not* up to the task of=20
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> 1) updating several dozen million devices=20
> 2) on links of various quality,=20
> 3) with 650MB to 1.2GB downloads and=20
> 4) a client that doesn't understand how to restart
> 5) all at once,
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> cause, over all, it went very poorly.
It went well for most users, it seems the 1-5% of people with "odd" =
configs are the problem.
Keep in mind that on any average day about 3% of the networks out there =
are broken based on pre-ipv6 day measurements. That is, their IPv4 is =
completely busted.
Having the error/problem rate being down in that area is reasonable to =
me.
How many code-red/slammer scans do you still see a decade on?
Overall this was surely a network traffic event, and those that observed =
the IOS6 impact a year ago realized it would occur again with IOS7 and =
monitored for it. Not everything will work for everyone, but for the =
majority of users it was fine. (This from surveying my non-geek =
friends).
Traffic levels will lower about 7 days post-release.
Also, NYC and other police departments are advocating people update =
immediately for the anti-theft upgrades provided in the new software. =
Let me know how your conversation with them goes.
- Jared=
