[190664] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: akamai abnormal spike
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Hannigan)
Mon Jul 18 11:35:17 2016
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From: Martin Hannigan <hannigan@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 11:34:34 -0400
To: eric c <xcellula@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 5:37 PM, eric c <xcellula@gmail.com> wrote:
> Good afternoon,
>
> Has anyone notice any abnormal spike in Akamai trafic in the last 24-48
> hours compared to other days. I know it was black tuesday yesterday but
> traffic from last month didn't even come close to what we saw from Akamai.
>
> We have some caching servers and even notice a spike to them as well.
Hi Eric,
There were two major software updates that spanned Tuesday and
Wednesday which are responsible for the increase you saw.
Best,
Martin Hannigan / AS 20940 / AS 32787
