[backstage] How come more and more of my iPlayer content seems to be being served by Yahoo?

2008-11-03 Thread Christopher Woods
Yes, Yahoo. I'm not going mad (at least, not yet... Or not completely mad). I've tried figuring this one out myself but to no avail. I sometimes spy on what the programs on my machine are doing network wise, and I noticed a while back that iPlayer streaming connections were beginning to come and

RE: [backstage] Zingzing

2008-11-03 Thread Christopher Woods
FWIW, I'm well used to horizontal scrolling for my listings when using Digiguide - whilst he's not got the Digiguide-esque mousewheel behaviour down yet, the horizontal scrolling works better than pages and pages of vertical scrolling for listings, so I think it works quite nicely. Dragging in

Re: [backstage] How come more and more of my iPlayer content seems to be being served by Yahoo?

2008-11-03 Thread Adam
Christopher Woods wrote: D:\Documents and Settings\Christophertracert 92.122.210.183 Tracing route to a92-122-210-183.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com [92.122.210.183] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 1 ms 2 ms 3 ms brum2-router0 [192.168.1.1] 2 *** Request

RE: [backstage] How come more and more of my iPlayer content seems to be being served by Yahoo?

2008-11-03 Thread Christopher Woods
Both of the ip addresses are owned by Akamai content distribution network that BBC Yahoo use to distribute their content. whois 213.155.157.140 inetnum:213.155.157.0 - 213.155.157.255 netname:AKAMAI descr: Akamai International B.V. org:ORG-AIB7-RIPE

Re: [backstage] How come more and more of my iPlayer content seems to be being served by Yahoo?

2008-11-03 Thread Brian Butterworth
2008/11/3 Christopher Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] Christopher, Have you checked for a trasparent proxy cache being used? Proxy Test This request appears NOT to have come via a proxy. The request appears to have originated from host *78-105-102-xx. zone3.bethere.co.uk* which has ip address

RE: [backstage] How come more and more of my iPlayer content seems to be being served by Yahoo?

2008-11-03 Thread Christopher Woods
Christopher, Have you checked for a trasparent proxy cache being used? Proxy Test This request appears NOT to have come via a proxy. The request appears to have originated from host 78-105-102-xx.zone3.bethere.co.uk which has ip address 78.105.102.xx Obfuscated the last octet for no

Re: [backstage] How come more and more of my iPlayer content seems to be being served by Yahoo?

2008-11-03 Thread Phil Lewis
Would be even more cool if you could obfuscate the last octet in the email Received: headers :-) BTW: I like your laptop name On a more technical note: I have access to a systems and switches connected directly to the same Telia backbone/transit network and, although it isn't highly conclusive,

Re: [backstage] [ORG-discuss] DRM Free BBC Content on GNU/Linux (Ubuntu)

2008-11-03 Thread Tim Dobson
Sean DALY wrote: This is very encouraging. Some commenters were (overly?) quick to criticize but I hope the guys won't get discouraged over that... I see it as progress which is moving in the right direction, and very good work(technically and diplomatically) on the behalf of several