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Re: OT: DNS funny business
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Ken Hirsch <[log in to unmask]>
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Ken Hirsch <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 29 Oct 2001 13:14:15 -0500
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David Thomas Darnell <[log in to unmask]>:
> Pinging login.yahoo.akadns.com [216.115.106.35] with 32 bytes of
> data:
>
> Request timed out.
> Request timed out.
> Request timed out.
>
> What is this akadns.com? Is someone internally trying to redirect
> access to yahoo mail?

It is global.
http://name.space.xs2.net/cgi-bin/nslookup.pl?pageid=NSLOOKUP&nsinput=mail.y
ahoo.com

gives the same result.

http://swhois.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?whois=akadns.com

Shows that akadns is a name for Akamai, the web-caching folk.  Originally
they only cached images, but now they cache common html pages, too.   Yahoo
pays them to do this to keep the load off their servers.  Akamai works real
hard to have short network paths to everybody and a huge capacity.

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