Baskett, Andrew wrote: > Hi J, > > As Patrick mentioned, on-net private Akamai clusters should not be serving > out of your network unless you desire them to or there is a configuration > mistake. > > There is a small caveat; we direct users by which DNS they use and not by > end user IP address. So if a user has switched ISPs and not updated their > DNS, they could still be directed to the previous ISP's on-net cluster. > Of course, this would be viewed as serving offnet but usually makes up a > very small % of traffic (think <1%) > > Unfortunately, Akamai has no control over this aspect but ISPs have a few > options to mitigate it. > > If you can let me know more info about what you are seeing, we would be > happy to investigate & help further. > > Thanks, > > Andrew Baskett > Senior Network Support - Akamai Technologies - Cambridge, MA USA > 888-421-1003 or +1-617-444-0089 - netsupport-...@akamai.com > http://www.akamai.com
Andrew, Actually, I've already been talking to you somewhat about our upgrades in the area, I believe. I'm mostly curious about what the user impact is on the cluster and link upgrades in terms of experience when that happens. This seems to be a common progression, so I'm curious ahead of time. > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patr...@ianai.net> > To: North American Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org> > Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2011 20:43:20 -0400 > Subject: Re: Apple updates - Akamai effect > On Oct 15, 2011, at 20:06, J <na...@namor.ca> wrote: >> Simon Leinen wrote: > >>> Guess it was a good idea to upgrade that Akamai cluster's uplink to >>> 10GE, even though 2*GE (or was it 4*GE) looked sufficient at the time. >>> Remember folks, "overprovisioning" is a misnomer, it should be called >>> "provisioning for robustness and growth". >> If I may change the thrust a bit, this is of interest to me. >> >> Just because we're in the midst of similar - changing from 2xGE to 10GE >> and >> increasing the number of Akamai nodes. >> >> Anyone have similar stats on that sort of conversion, and what to expect? >> From what I can tell, there's a fair bit of local, off-net traffic >> coming to >> ours, so I'm curious what the turn-up may look like. > > It sounds like you have what Akamai calls an "AANP" deployment. In > general, that should not serve users outside your network. There are > reasons it can, and you should talk to Akamai about it if you think it is. > > If you have questions about an on-net node, feel free to email Akamai's > Network Support group, netsupp...@akamai.com. They are only M-F, but they > can answer any questions you have. > > -- > TTFN, > patrick
