19 Sep
2014
19 Sep
'14
8:03 p.m.
On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 10:33 AM, Andy Ringsmuth <andy@newslink.com> wrote: [...]
Interestingly enough, it seems Apple primarily used it's own, new, CDN for the iOS 8 release:
http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/09/18/apple-chose-to-handle-ios-8-rollou...
I noticed same. Moreover, Apple appears to be reaching 701 over 3356/174 in my neck of the woods, which is not the wisest move, due to congestion, and thus painstakingly slow transfer speeds. Null routing 17.253.0.0/16 caused downloads to fall back to Akamai, where performance was quite snappy. (I'm not saying this is a good idea, or recommended at scale -- just sharing my observations.) FWIW, -a