{OT} Akamai allowed through firewall?
On Friday 08 January 2010 22:13:11 Grant wrote:
> I was going through some firewall rules today, and it looks like I
> allowed an IP address that resolves to akamai.com to be accessed for
> http from a restricted machine. Does that make sense to anyone?
>
> - Grant
>
Yes. akamai is a download server used by many commercial vendors to host
package downloads. You likely enabled it to be able to install some binary
package onto a single machine.
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
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