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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: microsoft
On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, Christopher A. Woodfield wrote: > What you're seeing is MS using Akamai's Edgesuite service. Basically, > www.microsoft.com CNAMES to www.microsoft.akadns.net, which resolves to > the "closest" Akamai server to the source IP on the DNS query. That box > caches the content from the *real* www.microsoft.com, and serves it up. > Nice concept, and a helluva lot easier to implement on the end user side > than FreeFlow, IMHO... No, I'm pretty sure that this is a third distinct service, not EdteSuite or FreeFlow - I know it as nothing but AkaDNS, it probably has a "real" name - if you traceroute to those servers, you'll see that they're actual Microsoft servers. Look at that, versus, say, www.segway.com, which is on EdgeSuite: www.segway.com. 3600 IN CNAME www.segway.com.edgesuite.net. www.segway.com.edgesuite.net. 21600 IN CNAME a1758.gc.akamai.net. a1758.gc.akamai.net. 20 IN A 209.185.188.10 a1758.gc.akamai.net. 20 IN A 209.185.188.107 Notice it's on edgesuite.net, not akadns.net. Tim Wilde -- Tim Wilde [email protected] Systems Administrator Dynamic DNS Network Services http://www.dyndns.org/
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