2009/10/20 Laszlo Beres <las...@beres.me>: > On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 4:13 AM, Kan-I Jyo <cecilhs...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Is there anyone who is familiar with this subject any information >> about how this is implemented or some more details? >> Any comment would be greatly appreciated. > > I guess there's no magic at all. The target servers are able to > determine the client's location (by its IP range) and redirecting the > requests to the nearest "real" server. You also can see that some > services are provided throug Akamai: > > r...@somewhere# host content-xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com > content-xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com CNAME > content-xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com.edgekey.net > content-xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com.edgekey.net CNAME e2622.c.akamaiedge.net > e2622.c.akamaiedge.net A 92.122.106.196 > > -- > Laszlo BERES > > _______________________________________________ > rhelv5-list mailing list > rhelv5-list@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list > Dear Laszlo,
Thank you for you explaination on how it works. It makes the picture now clearer to me. I am not familiar with Akamai but goggling tells me that they are providing a high-speed internet content delivery in a global scale. Thank you again for the information. -- Sincerely, Jyo _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list rhelv5-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
