Query Regarding AKAMAI Working Model

[michoski]

On 2/17/12 11:35 AM, "Anand Buddhdev" <anandb at ripe.net> wrote:
> Gaurav,
>> I want to know how AKAMAI works????
> First of all, don't use so many question marks; one is enough. And use
> it only if you're actually asking a question, not when stating something.

No one reads RFC 1855 anymore.  ;-)

>> May be this is not the right forum to ask but I am asking this here because
>> AKAMAI heavily depend on its HL-DNS and LL-DNS  AND these DNS Servers answer
>> the query based on some input it gets from BGP Routes.
> 
> This list is for discussing BIND operations. You're better off asking
> your question directly to Akamai. Here's a URL to get you started:
> http://www.akamai.com/html/support/index.html

+1 -- Send a query to the Akamai support folks, they are very knowledgeable
and helpful.  I know, they've helped me answer stupid questions on many
occasions.  It's almost rude to ask about their architecture on a somewhat
unrelated public forum.

http://www.akamai.com/dl/technical_publications/GloballyDistributedContentDe
livery.pdf

On a more "generic" note, the CNAME trick is often employed by people
building GSLB architectures.  We do the same for our internal
implementation.  It is usually administrative trickery (or creative
thinking) to increase efficiency, e.g. Delegate a globally load balanced
sub-domain to a set of GSLB devices (thousands in their case, our own
implementation is not yet nearly as robust) and then CNAME as needed vs.
delegating everything.

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