[174593] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Here comes iOS 8...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Rothschild)
Fri Sep 19 20:03:33 2014
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From: Adam Rothschild <asr@latency.net>
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 20:03:04 -0400
To: Andy Ringsmuth <andy@newslink.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 10:33 AM, Andy Ringsmuth <andy@newslink.com> wrote:
[...]
> Interestingly enough, it seems Apple primarily used it's own, new, CDN for the iOS 8 release:
>
> http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/09/18/apple-chose-to-handle-ios-8-rollout-with-own-content-delivery-network
I noticed same. Moreover, Apple appears to be reaching 701 over
3356/174 in my neck of the woods, which is not the wisest move, due to
congestion, and thus painstakingly slow transfer speeds.
Null routing 17.253.0.0/16 caused downloads to fall back to Akamai,
where performance was quite snappy.
(I'm not saying this is a good idea, or recommended at scale -- just
sharing my observations.)
FWIW,
-a
