[AusNOG] urlscan.io

[Alex Huntington]

Cool link!

Is there any process or procedure to stop an ISP or customer from registering a IPv4/IPv6 block in say New Zealand and then use them in Australia? 

>From what I understand the locality is pulled from the APNIC registration details. I've seen before IP addresses showing as "New Zealand" in a lookup but the ping round trip time is 1-3ms from a Sydney POP.



-----Original Message-----
From: AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Mark Smith
Sent: Friday, 16 June 2017 4:26 PM
To: Scott Howard <scott at doc.net.au>
Cc: AusNOG Mailing List <ausnog at ausnog.net>
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] urlscan.io

On 16 June 2017 at 16:10, Scott Howard <scott at doc.net.au> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 10:57 PM, Mark Smith <markzzzsmith at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I think an interesting example is www.theage.com.au. You would expect 
>> the main site to be hosted somewhere inside Australia, yet it is 
>> being hosted by Akamai somewhere in Europe.
>
>
> Want to think about that comment a little more?
>

Not really, didn't think much about it before.

Perhaps it it is surprising that Akamai are hosting copies of content a long way away from where it is going to be popularly read. There can't be that many readers of The Age in Europe.

I don't know anything about Akamai's service optons, and whether customers can choose where their content is held or provide an indication of where the content is most likely consumed.

If not, it might indicate Akamai's replication strategy could be copy everything everywhere or perhaps at least one copy in each continent.
Cheap enough to do in terms of storage and network bandwidth, just a bit of a surprise it isn't more optimal.

> Where do you think urlscan.io is hosted?  How does Akamai work?
>
>   Scott
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