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Elephant in the room - Akamai
- Subject: Elephant in the room - Akamai
- From: bryan at shout.net (Bryan Holloway)
- Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2019 10:15:52 +0100
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On 12/5/19 8:48 AM, Matthew Petach wrote:
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> On Wed, Dec 4, 2019, 19:05 Kaiser, Erich <erich at gotfusion.net
> <mailto:erich at gotfusion.net>> wrote:
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> Lets talk Akamai
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> [...]
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> The last two nights the traffic levels to them has skyrocketed as well.
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> Any insight?
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> Erich Kaiser
> The Fusion Network
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> As a CDN, I would usually expect to see traffic *from* Akamai to be the
> large direction.
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> If you're seeing your traffic *to* them skyrocketing, are you sure you
> aren't carrying DDoS attack traffic at them?
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> CDNs aren't known for being large traffic sinks.  ^_^;;
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> Matt
I think he meant inbound (from). We also saw the same thing.