On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 23:24, you wrote: > On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 22:56, Wesley Parish wrote: > > which gives ocw.mit.edu as the operative web site - and paradise.net > > isn't interested in resolving it for me, the fscckwits! > > It resolves for me. > > I've been reading bits of the site for 3-4 months now. It is a very good > resource. > > > Is it possible, since the commercial ISPs are being defunct in their > > duties after taking our money, for the University of Canterbury IT to > > mirror the MIT's OpenCourseWare site? > > Doubtful. Most of the site is 5 - 20MB pdfs. Say... 15 to a paper... and > how many papers? > a) Would they have space to hold it? (maybe the old news server's disks?) > b) Who would pay for the traffic? (always a got'ach were internal charging > occurs)
I've just done a traceroute and whois lookup on it and it would appear to be automagically hosted by Clear for MIT using the Akamai Freeflow Project. bash-2.05b$ traceroute ocw.mit.edu traceroute: Warning: ocw.mit.edu has multiple addresses; using 203.167.223.237 traceroute to a1887.g.akamai.NET (203.167.223.237), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 rafferty (192.168.2.3) 2.686 ms 1.903 ms 1.886 ms 2 fe7-4-515-1.bertha.paradise.net.nz (202.0.37.1) 13.773 ms 13.355 ms 14.683 ms 3 g1-0-1042.u21.tar.telstraclear.net (203.98.23.41) 18.321 ms 16.039 ms 16.561 ms 4 g9-0.1041.u12.brh.telstraclear.net (203.98.21.37) 37.809 ms 28.667 ms 26.263 ms 5 g1-926.u11.pnr.telstraclear.net (218.101.61.33) 27.407 ms 27.648 ms 27.782 ms 6 v927.cs1.akl.telstraclear.net (218.101.61.1) 25.265 ms 24.922 ms 24.507 ms 7 a203-167-223-237.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com (203.167.223.237) 26.782 ms 24.887 ms 24.904 ms -- Sincerely etc., Christopher Sawtell
