Re: Speedera Ping, was "Packets from 255.255.255.255(80), etc."

On Monday 03 February 2003 11:53 am, Neil Dickey wrote:
> It is my understanding that "Speedera" is web service provider, and that

Speedera usually sends its probes to your nameservers instead of the end client. The reason for this is due to the way their load balancing works. In a typical session, your client would ask your local nameserver to resolve the address of a Speedera-hosted client site. Your nameserver then queries the root nameservers who point your nameserver at the authoritative Speedera nameservers. Your nameserver then queries Speedera's nameserver, which pings the IP address making the query (your nameserver) using their distributed back-end network. It then returns a DNS reply containing the IP address of the fastest cache for your location.

-Joe

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Joe Stewart, GCIH 
Senior Intrusion Analyst
LURHQ Corporation
jstewart@lurhq.com


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