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If memory serves, Netflix users discovered that Akamai is using this strategy and everyone coming in from Google's DNS or OpenDNS was getting put into the same
by michaelcampbell 16y ago
If memory serves, Netflix users discovered that Akamai is using this strategy and everyone coming in from Google's DNS or OpenDNS was getting put into the same 'pool', and overloading the pipes in that pool. The recommendation was to use your ISP's DNS at least for your Netflix devices.
Or have I misunderstood?
(Post should probably have had the date listed; just realized this article is 7 years old. That doesn't make it wrong or bad, mind you...)
- IgorPartola 16y agoFixed the title. The sad thing is that not much has been invented since then to aid with global load balancing.
- laz 16y agohttp://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-vandergaast-edns-client-subnet-00 http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-vandergaast-edns-client-sub... is an RFC to fix this problem.
- davidu 16y agoThis isn't true for Google. Akamai has all kinds of archaic network issues that cause problems, but it isn't often OpenDNS related. They certainly do their best, and know our network map well as we send it to them whenever it changes. For Google -- If you use OpenDNS, you will always go to the most appropriate Google datacenter to you (not OpenDNS).
- dsl 16y agoTHIS. Akamai is using technology designed in 1998. I wish they would work with opendns to fix it.
- foobarbazetc 16y agoAkamai's not doing anything wrong. OpenDNS is a broken concept.
- dsl 16y agoAkamai only worked right 75% of the time even when it was first launched. Large ISPs that operated a single set of DNS servers for nationwide customers had the same problems. All OpenDNS did was start offering the same thing ISPs already did as an external service.
- michaelcampbell 16y agoHow so? DNS was never designed to be used as a geolocation vector, as far as I have ever heard, so relying on it to be one does seem "wrong".
- IgorPartola 16y agoOpenDNS defaults to resolving non-existant domains as search results, bereaking DNS. You can turn it off, if you have a static IP.
- michaelcampbell 16y agoI see. That doesn't seem to me to be a "broken concept", however, but a rather minor misfeature. I may have misread the poster to which I was responding, but his assertion seems to read to me that OpenDNS as a whole is fundamentally wrong or broken, and that Akamai is using the idea of DNS for something it was never intended to be is "correct". Both of those statements do not ring true.
- davidu 16y agoThis has nothing to do with Akamai being able to target users accurately. Google doesn't have this issue, so why does Akamai?
- davidu 16y agoThat's simply not true. Please argue with facts.