Re: Slashdot: Beware of Using Google Or Open DNS For iTunes

Thats a bit odd, because its based on the clients ip, not the dns ip.

Otherwise I would also have problems with Microsoft downloads because they are 
also akamai based.

So this can not be the whole explanation..

On 31 December 2010 12:57:57 Soh Kam Yung wrote:
> [
> http://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/12/31/0110226/Beware-of-Using-Google-Or
> -Open-DNS-For-iTunes ]
> [ http://joemaller.com/2577/itunes-slowdowns-with-google-dns/ ]
> 
> Anybody else using Google or Open DNS and encountered a similar issue
> with location based servers?
> 
> =====
> Beware of Using Google Or Open DNS For iTunes on Thursday December 30,
> @11:20PM Posted by timothy on Thursday December 30, @11:20PM
> from the speak-friend-and-enter-slowly dept.
> 
> Relayman writes "Joe Mailer wanted to download an iTunes movie
> recently and his Apple TV told him it would take two hours. When he
> switched his DNS resolver settings, the download time dropped to less
> than 20 seconds. Apparently, iTunes content is served by Akamai which
> uses geolocation based on the IP address of the DNS request to
> determine which server should provide his content. When you use Google
> or Open DNS to resolve the Apple domain name, all the requests to
> Akamai appear to be coming from the same location and they're all
> directed to the same server pool, overloading that pool and causing
> the slow downloads. The solution: Be wary of using Google or Open DNS
> when downloading iTunes files or similar large files. Use your own
> ISPs DNS servers instead or run your own resolving DNS server."
> =====

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With regards,
Mike Veltman

A world with only one operating system, is a world without choice.

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