On Fri, 06 May 2011 15:49:31 -0300, Gustavo said: > WTF ? > > notebook:~$ ping www.compusa.com > PING bh.georedirector.akadns.net (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
www.compusa.com and www.tigerdirect.com are Akamai'zed. They play DNS games to point you at the "nearest" Akamai cache server (technically speaking, they use the one nearest your DNS resolver). So for www.compusa.com, it goes something like this: www.compusa.com. 60 IN CNAME compusa.syx.com.akadns.net. compusa.syx.com.akadns.net. 300 IN CNAME www.compusa.com.edgekey.net. www.compusa.com.edgekey.net. 300 IN CNAME e3531.b.akamaiedge.net. e3531.b.akamaiedge.net. 20 IN A 173.223.190.102 (The final akamaiedge.net address will depend on where in the Internet you are) The fact that bh.georedirector.akadns.net got referenced in the ping most likely means "Akamai got confused where you are and has no *clue* which cache is closest to you".
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