I don't know how this slipped through the cracks, but I've just noticed that Facebook has started hosting some content on static.ak.fbcdn.net [fbcdn presumably = facebook content distribution network]
Is Facebook planning on using multiple CDNs?
Both static.ak.fbcdn.net and static.ak.facebook.com seem to be hosted by Akamai, so for us "lucky" .ac.za we get routed through IS. This is actually good news, as we have a very high-speed connection to IS from TENET. Unfortunately, most institutions connect slowly into TENET (~30 Mbps for UCT!) and implement some shaping on popular websites. So we don't get most of the benefit.
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Yeah, except it keeps "connecting to" that server, for the last... forever. Facebook, is, basically, down for me.
If you're connecting from within UCT then that's because they shape a lot of the traffic. And anything to the 'annoying-to-ICTS' websites is shaped into oblivion.
it happen'd to me too, thought i had a virus
I think many people might describe ICTS as a virus. It inserts itself into everything, slows things down, and mostly affects Windows computers...
This is interesting and slightly scary... static.ak.fbcdn.net is assigned to the Russian Federation according to this site http://www.selfseo.com/find_ip_address_of_a_website.php
1) selfseo is registered in Hamburg, and the closest Akamai cluster (which hosts static.ak.fbcdn.net) hangs off DE-CIX. The IP that is reported when doing the lookup is of that Akamai cluster.
2) The IP geo-location in use seems quite bad: it thinks www.uct.ac.za is in the United States!
3)...Profit!
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