We noticed that on the 12th-14th we had multiple subscribers on ~5Mbps
subscription rates that were being sent ~50Mbps of data sourced from TCP
port 80 (apparently HTTP) from Limelight Networks' servers. The data did
appear to be user requested, still not sure why TCP didn't throttle the
data rate appropriately. The 50Mbps was distributed across multiple LLNW
servers. Makes me wonder if the customer was requesting one batch of
data and multiple servers were responding.
The issue cleared up on its own and I never was able to perform a full
packet capture to investigate. I have not noticed the same behavior from
Akamai servers.
Clayton Zekelman wrote on 7/18/2016 8:26 AM:
We noticed on the 12th and 13th there was a significant up tick in
traffic served from our Akamai servers as well.
At 05:37 PM 13/07/2016, eric c wrote:
Good afternoon,
Has anyone notice any abnormal spike in Akamai trafic in the last 24-48
hours compared to other days. I know it was black tuesday yesterday but
traffic from last month didn't even come close to what we saw from
Akamai.
We have some caching servers and even notice a spike to them as well.
Limelight even showed up on our network.
thanks
eric
