Re: [Linux-aus] bigpond now uses proxy servers to spy on 'us'

["James Polley" <zhasper@gmail.com>]

Senectus is correct.

You can get information about Akamai's services at http://www.akamai.com/en/html/services/overview.html. Basically, they put proxies in major datacenters/major ISP hubs around the world, and cache their customers sites there - so that, for instance, when a Telstra customer visits the site of an Akamai customer, the page is served off a Telstra server directly on Telstra's backbone, ensuring very fast response times for the user.

There's nothing malicious about this at all. This is not something Telstra have done, it's something the sites you mentioned (cnn.com et al) have paid large some of money to have done, so that you get a better service.

On 7/4/06, Senectus . <senectus@gmail.com> wrote:

As far as I can tell, akamai technologies are an Internet
caching/streaming media delivery service that seem to be very popular
around the world.
They seem to have a very googlish philosophy about how they build
their hardware, with lots of common sense redundancies and smart
designs, and they're so good at it they're world wide.

seems innocent enough to me.


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