Re: akamai rate limiting?

[Cameron Byrne <cb.list6 () gmail com>]

On Sep 21, 2011 4:43 PM, "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick () ianai net> wrote:
> On Sep 20, 2011, at 11:17 PM, Cameron Byrne wrote:
> > On Sep 20, 2011 7:54 PM, "Joseph Gersch" <joe.gersch () secure64 com>
wrote:
> > > Does anyone know if Akamai edgesuite servers rate limits or blacklists
> > > caching servers that query it too often?  It appears that queries are
timing
> > > out if we exceed a query load to edgesuite.
> > >
> > > Does anyone at Akamai know if there are any changes to rate limiting or
> > > an abnormally high load?
>
> > Akamai traffic is dropping on my network now.
> >
> > Emailed their noc, no eta on fix
>
> Cameron & I have been in contact off-list, and all issues have been
resolved.
> More generally: Hopefully it will come as no surprise that Akamai has some
rate-limiting parameters configured.  The Internet is a nasty place, and
every contentious provider should have protections in place.
> If anyone sees any problems with Akamai name servers or anything else,
noc () akamai com is monitored 24/7 and should be able to either help directly,
or get you in touch with the right people who can.
>

Thanks to Patrick and team at Akamai for resolving this quickly

Cb

> --
> TTFN,
> patrick