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Re: iOS 7 update traffic
From: Joe Abley <jabley () hopcount ca>
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 14:06:59 -0400
On 2013-09-19, at 13:58, Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster () mykolab com> wrote:
Can someone please explain to a non-Apple person what the hell happened that started generating so much traffic? Perhaps I missed it in this thread, but I would be curious to know what iOS 7 implemented that caused this...
I think the inference is that iOS 7 caused the extra traffic by being available for download. There are just a lot of Apple devices, and they tend to get upgraded more promptly than other platforms (e.g. on release day). We saw a similar phenomenon tracking downloads of the root zone DNSSEC trust anchor from data.iana.org -- we now see three million downloads per month, and pretty much all of those are iOS devices (or other devices impersonating them, which seems unlikely). Joe
Current thread:
- Re: iOS 7 update traffic, (continued)
- Re: iOS 7 update traffic Jean-Francois Mezei (Sep 21)
- Re: iOS 7 update traffic Justin M. Streiner (Sep 19)
- RE: iOS 7 update traffic james (Sep 19)
- Re: iOS 7 update traffic Ben (Sep 20)
- Re: iOS 7 update traffic Stephen Frost (Sep 20)
- Re: iOS 7 update traffic TR Shaw (Sep 19)
- Re: iOS 7 update traffic Bryan Irvine (Sep 19)
- Re: iOS 7 update traffic Paul Ferguson (Sep 19)
- Re: iOS 7 update traffic Jay Ashworth (Sep 23)
- RE: iOS 7 update traffic Darren O'Connor (Sep 19)
- Re: iOS 7 update traffic Joe Abley (Sep 19)
- Re: iOS 7 update traffic TR Shaw (Sep 19)
- Re: iOS 7 update traffic Masataka Ohta (Sep 19)
- Re: iOS 7 update traffic Justin M. Streiner (Sep 19)
- Re: iOS 7 update traffic Bryan Irvine (Sep 19)
- Re: iOS 7 update traffic Patrick W. Gilmore (Sep 19)
- Re: iOS 7 update traffic Seth Mattinen (Sep 19)
- Re: iOS 7 update traffic Phil Bedard (Sep 19)
- Re: iOS 7 update traffic Randy Bush (Sep 19)
- RE: iOS 7 update traffic Garrison Carr (Sep 19)