Hi Guys, To nip this in the bud before we get overwhelmed by the me-toos, the Akamai *caching* servers are different to the *streaming* servers. Start a Apple trailer playing and check out where the traffic is coming from. Hope this clears things up for people. Cheers, Patrick On 31/07/2008, at 4:02 PM, Bill Walker wrote:
Lots of ISP's including Inspire, WorldxChange, Snap, Telstra and Telecom have Akamai Caching servers.
traceroute download.microsoft.com
Translating "download.microsoft.com"...domain server (202.37.101.1) [OK]
Type escape sequence to abort. Tracing the route to a767.ms.akamai.net (202.124.116.42)
1 snap-chc-state2-rtr01.snap.net.nz (202.37.101.94) 0 msec 0 msec 0 msec 2 a767.ms.akamai.net (202.124.116.42) 0 msec 0 msec 0 msec
Cheers,
Bill
-----Original Message----- From: Jed Laundry [mailto:jlaundry(a)gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, 31 July 2008 3:58 p.m. To: Matthew Poole Cc: nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Subject: Re: [nznog] Akamai streaming cluster on APE.
TelstraClear has a direct connection to Akamai, or at least it appears to from here at Waikato uni.
I believe Xtra also has a direct link as well.
Jed.
Matthew Poole wrote:
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-- Thanks, Jed.
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