Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that

[Alistair Mackenzie <magicsata () gmail com>]

Off-peak hours are on-peak somewhere else in the world.

On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 7:37 PM Darin Steffl <darin.steffl () mnwifi com>
wrote:

> Shouldn't game patches like this be released overnight during off-peak
> hours? Fortnite releases their updates around 3 or 4am when most ISP's
> networks are at their lowest utilization. It seems somewhat reckless to
> release such a large patch during awake hours.
>
> On Sat, Jan 25, 2020, 12:08 PM Brandon Jackson via NANOG <nanog () nanog org>
> wrote:
>
> > "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare fragged our business VOIP: US ISP blames
> > outage on smash-hit video game rush
> > This is Windstream, going dark..."
> > https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/01/23/windstream_fvoip_outage/
> >
> > Apparently not everyone came out unscathed.
> >
> > ----------------------------------
> > Brandon Jackson
> > bjackson () napshome net
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 10:14 AM Aaron Gould <aaron1 () gvtc com> wrote:
> >
> > > My gosh, what in the word was that coming out of my local Akamai aanp
> > > servers yesterday !?  starting at about 12:00 noon central time lasting
> > > several hours ?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > -Aaron