Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2001 22:52:05 -0400 From: dsr@akamai.com
If heavily enough distributed, congestion should be highly localized... if present at all. Let's assume that a "basic server" can service 10 Mbps of traffic. Install servers in various points, a la Akamai... any traffic sinks here ever manage to overload your Akamai boxen? If so, how often compared to a random traffic source.
Please don't start attacking your local Akamai box to prove this, though. Brute-force is so inelegant.
!!! My intended point was that Akamaized sites are less likely to be overloaded than non-Akamaized sites. Traffic spikes from incidents such as the release of the Starr report and the bombings last month have demonstrated this. Given enough hosting points, overloading becomes rare; I used Akamai as a real-life example. Given that overloading is rare, we can focus on failover, and worry less about load-balancing. Given that we need only to focus on failover, the problem (and hopefully the solution) becomes much simpler. I'd hope that the average NANOG reader knows better than to try any "let's see how much traffic before this breaks" stupidity... Eddy --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brotsman & Dreger, Inc. - EverQuick Internet Division Phone: +1 (316) 794-8922 Wichita/(Inter)national Phone: +1 (785) 865-5885 Lawrence --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 11:23:58 +0000 (GMT) From: A Trap <blacklist@brics.com> To: blacklist@brics.com Subject: Please ignore this portion of my mail signature. These last few lines are a trap for address-harvesting spambots. Do NOT send mail to <blacklist@brics.com>, or you are likely to be blocked.