Re: Hotmail and player.play.it

[Matthew Petach <mpetach () netflight com>]

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 2:52 PM, JoeSox <joesox () gmail com> wrote:
> I just ran into this problem about two or so weeks ago hoping it would go away.
> I am denying 'player.play.it' [currently resolving to 67.148.71.9,
> 67.148.71.11] on my Juniper firewall.
>
> However I get denied navigating to 'hotmail.com' [policy says it is
> 67.148.71.11 causing the trouble]
>
> I don't see any player.play.it references in the html or anything
> (including the live.com sites unless I am missing something). Any
> hotmail admins fix this or something or maybe I am missing something
> else.


mpetach@netops2:~> whois -h whois.arin.net 67.148.71.9
Qwest Communications Company, LLC QWEST-INET-19 (NET-67-144-0-0-1)
                                  67.144.0.0 - 67.148.255.255
AKAMAI TECHNOLOGIES INC Q1111-67-148-71-0 (NET-67-148-71-0-1)
                                  67.148.71.0 - 67.148.71.255

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mpetach@netops2:~>

Welcome to the joys of outsourced CDN platforms.  You're effectively
blocking anything that uses Akamai--probably not what you meant to
do.  Try re-evaluating your security policy and focus it a bit more
tightly on what you're trying to secure against.  ^_^;

Matt

> --
> Thanks, Joe