Akamai Traffic Spikes
We were trying to diagnose an issue we had around 1 PM EDST, and were looking at net flow data. The data indicated a significant change in our traffic patterns, all coming from Akamai address space. The Akamai utilization graphs show a near doubling of retail traffic in the same time period that we had traffic spikes. Does anybody have any idea what caused such a major surge in traffic? http://www.akamai.com/html/technology/nui/retail/charts.html Robert D. Scott rob...@ufl.edu Senior Network Engineer 352-273-0113 Phone CNS - Network Services352-392-2061 CNS Phone Tree University of Florida 352-392-9440 FAX Florida Lambda Rail 352-294-3571 FLR NOC Gainesville, FL 32611321-663-0421 Cell 3216630...@messaging.sprintpcs.com
Re: Akamai Traffic Spikes
On Oct 4, 2010, at 3:50 PM, Scott, Robert D. wrote: We were trying to diagnose an issue we had around 1 PM EDST, and were looking at net flow data. The data indicated a significant change in our traffic patterns, all coming from Akamai address space. The Akamai utilization graphs show a near doubling of retail traffic in the same time period that we had traffic spikes. Does anybody have any idea what caused such a major surge in traffic? http://www.akamai.com/html/technology/nui/retail/charts.html Akamai is happy to discuss traffic to individual ASes with those ASes. Please be sure to send e-mail from a verifiable address in that AS if you want information about that AS. If you are a peer, the standard peer...@akamai.com address works. If you have Akamai boxes on your network, you can open a ticket with the Network Support group at netsupport-...@akamai.com. Our 24/7 NOC, n...@akamai.com, can help with emergency problems, such as a congested link. However, you will have to reach one of the other groups for in-depth, historical traffic investigation. Or you can find one of the Akamai people at NANOG. :) As for this specific problem, I haven't an idea what happened. I can tell you Akamai's global traffic at 1300 EDT / 1700 UTC today was actually lower than yesterday's traffic at the same time. Not sure if that means anything, though. -- TTFN, patrick
re: Akamai Traffic Spikes
Didn't see any spikes here, But from the looks of that graph something sure happened. It was huge, And only for a short period, Strange. Nick Olsen Network Operations (877) 804-3001 x106 From: Scott, Robert D. rob...@ufl.edu Sent: Monday, October 04, 2010 3:51 PM To: nanog@nanog.org nanog@nanog.org Subject: Akamai Traffic Spikes We were trying to diagnose an issue we had around 1 PM EDST, and were looking at net flow data. The data indicated a significant change in our traffic patterns, all coming from Akamai address space. The Akamai utilization graphs show a near doubling of retail traffic in the same time period that we had traffic spikes. Does anybody have any idea what caused such a major surge in traffic? http://www.akamai.com/html/technology/nui/retail/charts.html Robert D. Scott rob...@ufl.edu Senior Network Engineer 352-273-0113 Phone CNS - Network Services352-392-2061 CNS Phone Tree University of Florida 352-392-9440 FAX Florida Lambda Rail 352-294-3571 FLR NOC Gainesville, FL 32611321-663-0421 Cell 3216630...@messaging.sprintpcs.com
