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Re: Akamai Servers: Normal or Weird?

  • From: Robert E. Seastrom
  • Date: Fri Jun 29 16:56:47 2001

Have you contacted Akamai about this?

                                        ---Rob (not speaking for employer)


Chris Rapier <[email protected]> writes:

> Is something funny happening with them lately or is it normal to see
> 45Mbps of UDP traffic between akamai servers (45Mps peak, average for
> the past 24 hours is around 15Mbps. Prior to that it wasn't enough to
> show up in our graphs). More information: Our akamai farm is the one
> recieving all of the data - its coming into our various akamai hosts on
> port 1455.
> 
> I've never looked at this traffic before so I don't know if this is
> normal or not. I understand that the servers have to talk to each other
> to distribute content but why UDP and why consume so much bandwidth?
> 
> Chris