Re: Elephant in the room - Akamai

[Matthew Petach <mpetach () netflight com>]

On Wed, Dec 4, 2019, 19:05 Kaiser, Erich <erich () gotfusion net> wrote:

> Lets talk Akamai

[...]


> The last two nights the traffic levels to them has skyrocketed as well.
>
> Any insight?
>
>
> Erich Kaiser
> The Fusion Network

As a CDN, I would usually expect to see traffic *from* Akamai to be the
large direction.

If you're seeing your traffic *to* them skyrocketing, are you sure you
aren't carrying DDoS attack traffic at them?

CDNs aren't known for being large traffic sinks.   ^_^;;

Matt