[ale] Fwd: Beware of Using Google Or Open DNS For iTunes

[Paul Cartwright]

anyone else read this??

http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Ztsd-snDIyM/story01.htm

<http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/32909/f/530758/s/111df4c1/l/0Lapple0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C10A0C120C310C0A110A2260CBeware0Eof0EUsing0EGoogle0EOr0EOpen0EDNS0EFor0EiTunes0Dfrom0Frss/story01.htm>

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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Paul Cartwright
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