Re: cyberwar against US ?

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Fri, 14 May 2004 19:08:32 +0200, Raymond Dijkxhoorn said:

> You list one nice example, and also one that is pointing to what i were 
> saying. microsoft is, if i am right, still akamized.

Sort of.  Their DNS seems to be, but not their hosting.

% dig www.microsoft.com
gives us:

www.microsoft.com.      58      IN      CNAME   www.microsoft.akadns.net.
www.microsoft.akadns.net. 6     IN      CNAME   www2.microsoft.akadns.net.
www2.microsoft.akadns.net. 36   IN      A       207.46.244.188

%  dig -x 207.46.244.188
188.244.46.207.in-addr.arpa. 3600 IN    PTR     origin2.microsoft.com.

traceroute 207.46.244.188
traceroute to 207.46.244.188 (207.46.244.188), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
... (lopping out uninteresting details of our local net)
 7  atm1-0.11.roa.networkvirginia.net (192.70.187.194)  2.192 ms  2.423 ms  1.797 ms
 8  sl-gw20-rly-2-2.sprintlink.net (160.81.255.1)  7.583 ms  7.175 ms  7.269 ms
 9  sl-bb23-rly-3-2.sprintlink.net (144.232.14.45)  10.779 ms  7.325 ms  7.291 ms
10  sl-bb21-rly-9-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.14.133)  7.985 ms  7.439 ms  7.279 ms
11  sl-bb22-rly-13-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.7.254)  7.700 ms  7.277 ms  7.237 ms
12  sl-bb22-sj-10-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.20.186)  69.326 ms  69.370 ms  69.075 ms
13  sl-bb23-tac-14-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.20.9)  91.104 ms  91.112 ms  91.018 ms
14  sl-bb22-tac-9-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.17.181)  91.250 ms  90.928 ms  91.237 ms
15  sl-bb20-sea-0-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.9.150)  91.991 ms  91.753 ms  92.084 ms
16  sl-gw14-sea-7-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.6.154)  91.898 ms  91.464 ms  91.744 ms
17  sl-webtv1-1-0-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.192.6)  95.027 ms  96.160 ms  95.345 ms
18  gig6-0.core1.sea1.ntwk.msn.net (207.46.40.1)  94.487 ms  94.626 ms  94.558 ms
19  pos7-0.iusnixcpxc1201.ntwk.msn.net (207.46.36.66)  95.011 ms  94.662 ms  94.800 ms
20  pos1-0.iustixcpdc1201.ntwk.msn.net (207.46.155.10)  92.327 ms  92.637 ms  93.528 ms

Here to Roanoke to San Jose to Tacoma to Seattle...

Looks like it ends up back at MSN.. ;)

And yes, there *is* a Akamai node in my machine room, so if it was fully akamai'ed
it wouldn't go cross country...

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