Re: Elephant in the room - Akamai

[Bryan Holloway <bryan () shout net>]

On 12/5/19 8:48 AM, Matthew Petach wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 4, 2019, 19:05 Kaiser, Erich <erich () gotfusion net 
> <mailto:erich () gotfusion net>> wrote:
>
>     Lets talk Akamai
>
>
> [...]
>
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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
>
>
> 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


I think he meant inbound (from). We also saw the same thing.