Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 01:27:31 +0100 From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> To: devet@devet.org (Arjan de Vet), brad.knowles@skynet.be Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: serving content from the closest server Message-ID: <p0510120fb87cec4e8f92@[10.0.1.21]> In-Reply-To: <20020129232909.GA1942@adv.devet.org> References: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0201291249530.14819-100000@pilchuck.reedmedia.net> <20020129232909.GA1942@adv.devet.org>
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begin C:\WINDOWS\I-COULD-HAVE-WIPED-OUT-WIN.INI At 12:29 AM +0100 2002/01/30, Arjan de Vet wrote: > Last time I looked at the Akamai setup their DNS servers handed out > different IP addresses for the same hostname depending on the source of > the DNS request in order to redirect people to the nearest Akamai > server. So no HTTP redirects at all AFAIK. They probably do this at the first level URL to find the closest master site, but I know that there are specific URLs that get generated which actually refer by name to the closest cache server. I know this because Belgacom Skynet (my former employer) was the host to the first set of Akamai servers in Belgium, and we learned a lot about how they functioned. Kind of like doing anycast for the Global Director (or similar device), then having it do a redirect to the closest load-balancing system to handle the actual traffic. -- Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be> Do you hate Microsoft? Do you hate Outlook? Then visit the Anti-Outlook page at <http://www.rodos.net/outlook/>; and see how much fun you can have. end To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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