[AusNOG] Any Akamai Contacts or some advice on dealing with them?

[McDonald Richards]

The only way to be 100% sure is to run your own and ensure it's not running
over it's recommended load.

A lot of the bouncing around you see is probably performance related.

Macca



On 22/09/11 9:03 AM, "Ryan Crouch" <ryan at apexn.com.au> wrote:

> Morning Ausnog,
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> I am curious if there are any Akamai staff around that can help me with how
> their system is handing out cluster selection. I know its via DNS etc, but I
> have had the primary source cluster change on me 3 times this year alone and
> it's starting to get a little bit annoying. I have once or twice before
> logged tickets with their NOC only to have the query lost in the void.
> 
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> 
> Has anyone had any joy speaking with Akamai in locking down which clusters
> they use/poll or at least selecting one that they will primarily return DNS
> results for? I realise the system is 'smart' and is handing out sources
> close to our network but the result is not ideal.
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> 
> 
> -Ryan
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