[191530] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: CDN Overload?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Tue Sep 20 16:35:07 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2016 22:34:57 +0200
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.1609192132170.26305@soloth.lewis.org> (Jon Lewis's
message of "Mon, 19 Sep 2016 21:49:59 -0400 (EDT)")
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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* Jon Lewis:
> This is kind of a funny problem though, because CDNs get paid to
> deliver data, and they get compared/graded according to who can
> deliver the bits the fastest...and here you are complaining that
> they're delivering the bits too fast (or at least faster than you'd
> like them to).
Surely CDNs bill packets which are subsequently dropped by the
network. :)
