[39254] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Akamai Servers: Normal or Weird?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert E. Seastrom)
Fri Jun 29 16:53:56 2001
To: Chris Rapier <rapier@psc.edu>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
From: rs@seastrom.com (Robert E. Seastrom)
Date: 29 Jun 2001 16:53:24 -0400
In-Reply-To: Chris Rapier's message of "Fri, 29 Jun 2001 16:39:04 -0400"
Message-ID: <87u20zxb23.fsf@valhalla.seastrom.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Have you contacted Akamai about this?
---Rob (not speaking for employer)
Chris Rapier <rapier@psc.edu> writes:
> Is something funny happening with them lately or is it normal to see
> 45Mbps of UDP traffic between akamai servers (45Mps peak, average for
> the past 24 hours is around 15Mbps. Prior to that it wasn't enough to
> show up in our graphs). More information: Our akamai farm is the one
> recieving all of the data - its coming into our various akamai hosts on
> port 1455.
>
> I've never looked at this traffic before so I don't know if this is
> normal or not. I understand that the servers have to talk to each other
> to distribute content but why UDP and why consume so much bandwidth?
>
> Chris
