deploy.akamaitechnologies.com

[RabbieBurns]

Any idea what this is. Its showing up in my firewall logs as using over a gig of downloads a day.

[ZeroHour]

Tons of things use akamai as mirroring around the world.
Is this at home or work? What av do you have as some AV uses that.
Any url strings?

[TheMinister]

deploy.akamaitechnologies.com is used to cache a lot of authors updates.

[RabbieBurns]

this is at work.

for example, out of yesterdays top 10 sites by volume were:

a125-56.205-112.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com
a125-56.204-34.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com
a125-56.205-131.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com
a125-56.205-75.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com
a125-56.204-128.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com
a125-56.204-82.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com
a125-56.204-114.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com

We have sophos which is managed through the enterprise console, and windows updates are done through WSUS.

[TheMinister]

If you can see which computers are accessing these sites, you'd probably find that they are your WSUS server and SOPHOS console caching updates.

[chazzy2501]

I 'Think' I always see them when I download isos from Microsoft.

[Sylv3r]

BBC iPlayer / News content - seem to use the akamai servers heavily.

[localzuk]

Apple iTunes uses Akami, as do Amazon and Adobe.

[mb2k01]

Yep, it is any of the following (and probably quite a few more!) - Microsoft Update, AV updates (Symantec Endpoint's live update was featuring heavily for me), iPlayer. Basically, if you see it, dont worry to much about it