[55576] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: shuttle flash crowd statistics
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Sat Feb 1 18:05:28 2003
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2003 18:02:35 -0500 (EST)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20030201114551.E66266-100000@www.mauigateway.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Scott Weeks wrote:
> BTW folks are interested, but there is little data coming in to share.
> As time goes on, I hope folks that show unusual traffic levels (on both
> sides; eyeball networks and content networks as well as transit networks)
> will send pointers to me that I can share with others. I am very
> interested in flash crowd situations and how to mitigate the problems
> associated with them...
Historically providers have been reluctant to provide that level of
detail concerning traffic levels. A few providers, generally smaller
ones, do make MRTG graphs available. Once in a while a provider will
announce they had X Peta/Terrabytes of traffic for some time period.
But most prefer measurements which can not be correlated with revenue
(e.g. packet drops, latency, jitter, availability, etc).
I didn't see any noticable change on Abovenet/MFN's public MRTG graphs
at MAE-West/MIX-West. Keynote/Matrix public data show no visible changes
of the web sites they measure. They may have some private data which
shows more details.
Of course, NASA is a US federal agency, so you can always try the Freedom
of Information Act (FOIA). But they have other things to do today.