Re: [SQU] deakamiser

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael May" <mmay@akamai.com>
To: "'Robert Collins'" <robert.collins@itdomain.com.au>; "'Squid-Users (E-mail)'" <squid-users@ircache.net>
Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2000 8:54 PM
Subject: RE: [SQU] deakamiser

SNIP
 
> The a4.g.akamai.net is a virtual server that is mapped to an IP based on the
> origin of the request and current traffic and load conditions on our
> network. This mapping is twofold: a DNS lookup for g.akamai.net from our
> central high-level name servers points you (TTL 20 min.) to low-level name
> servers in a region optimal to serve your request. The low-level name
> servers return two IPs (TTL 3 min.) with enough bandwidth and CPU to serve
> the request optimally.
>
> The rest of the ARL is metadata consisting of 4 fields: caching typecode,
> virtual server number, customer code, identifier (assorted possibilities
> based on typecode: MD5, version string, TTL etc.).
>
> To repeat: the ARLs are static, the DNS resolution is highly dynamic ...
>
> Michael
>
>

ARL?
Hmm that makes sense... I remove my reservations... Does the same apply to akamaitech stuff?

I'll dig into my logs anyway to see why I thought it was akamai in the first place (other than ignorance of the mechanism).

Rob

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