Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that

[Mike Hammett <nanog () ics-il net>]

IIRC, game consoles are always on, whether they're "on" or not. 




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From: "Tom Beecher" <beecher () beecher cc> 
To: "Darin Steffl" <darin.steffl () mnwifi com> 
Cc: Nanog () nanog org 
Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2020 5:13:19 PM 
Subject: Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that 



Not everybody leaves their console/PC on 24/7 so that they would pull the patch at 3am local even if that’s when it was 
released. 


It’s far from reckless. It’s not the game companies job to make sure the network works. That’s our job. 



On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 14:37 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: 

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"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. 






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Brandon Jackson 
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On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 10:14 AM Aaron Gould < aaron1 () gvtc com > wrote: 

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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 


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