deploy.akamaitechnologies.com

[Hutzpa]

has anyone here on DU heard of the site? they seemed to comsumed most of my bandwith
and slow my browser speed and I can't figure a way to block them.

:shrug:

[MineralMan]

1. They're a big distributed server. Lots of websites use

Akamai to serve all their videos and other files.

That may be a key to your understanding.

[Hutzpa]

2. What exactly are they distributing?

Is opening multiple ports part of the distribution too?

[MineralMan]

3. It depends. I believe, for example, that Microsoft uses Akamai

to distribute update files. Many places use Akamai to store and feed videos when you click on the Play button.

The deal is that they have these huge servers and really, really big bandwidth pipelines. These would be extremely costly for most companies to own, so, they sell that capability on a per-use basis to other corporate websites.

So, when Windows Update detects that you need some update, for example, it triggers the update to be sent to you via an Akamai server.

Like a lot of things, the Akamai system thinks its the very most important thing ever, so it tends to grab all the resources it can find on your computer to minimize the time needed to feed whatever data it is feeding to you.

It's probably possible to block it from having any access to your system, but you'd be blocking a lot of things you don't know about...things that use Akamai to serve data to you.

The answer is likely to be a newer computer with more gigabytes of memory. That would probably keep this in the background, out of your awareness. What I've found with my ancient XP SP2 OS and just 512 MB of memory is that, if I keep fewer windows open at a time, I don't notice the slowdowns. If I have a bunch of browser windows open and other stuff, the PC uses a lot of virtual memory on the hard drive and slows to a crawl at times.

I guess what I'm saying is that there's not a good solution to avoiding Akamai feeds. They're ubiquitous.

[Hutzpa]

4. really

how do you explain this from this site; http://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/thread-72347-1.php

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Today I learnt about "deploy.akamaitechnologies.com" after I found out it latches onto my PRIVATE e-mail software called 'Outlook Express'.

Company founder of Akamai Technologies was an Israeli called Daniel C. Lewin

http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=7471

Daniel C. Lewin was also a Captain In 'Sayeret Matkal' (A Israeli Unit Of 'Counter Terrorism - Anti Hijacking Commandos)

Daniel C. Lewin was the only Israeli onboard a flight (11) on 9/11 - This is probably his Jewish accented (not that Arab Atta) voice heard on Flight 11 here calming folks down... http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-sr.../061704-12s.htm

To understand Akamai Technologies and their "deploy.akamaitechnologies.com" the easy way, remove that junk ZoneAlarm firewall and install 'SunBelt' firewall.

http://www.sunbelt-software.com/Hom...sonal-Firewall/

'SunBelt' firewall (in advanced mode) will show/ask you, if you would like "deploy.akamaitechnologies.com" to operating in the background overseeing your activities while using services like svhost.exe, 'Outlook Express" e-mail software etc.

Zone Alarm doesn't inform you about those extra connections = JUNK!

Shortly after 9/11, main stream news reported Israeli companies have a strangle hold over Americans communications.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ-6mKTg0qo

Summing up...

* If you value your privacy, you don't need some foreign company latching onto your e-mail programs...do you? Did they ask you first if it was OK that they tie themselves onto your "Outlook Express?

* ZoneAlarm and XP firewalls are junk!!! - And so are any other firewalls that don't show you ALL the sub connections each program is running in the background to the outside world...uninstall them and use something that shows all inward and outward connections by ip/url
* If your see any url's come up linking your private data to "deploy.akamaitechnologies.com"...BLOCK IT!!!!!!!!!

[MineralMan]

5. Yes, that's a website discussion you have there.

There are many of those around. I'm afraid it's bullshit, though.

I told you who and what Akamai is. If you wish, you can Google it and read more. If you don't, then you can do whatever you want to do.

There are many myths on the internet, and what you just posted is one of them.

If really want to find out what Akamai does, and what companies use it, go to:

www.akamai.com and look around.

As for that post, do you really consider some "junior member" with one post on some website to be an authority? If so, I know a Nigerian guy who has some money for you.

[Hutzpa]

8. That explains it then. n/t

[Ignis]

6. Akamai is just a global load-balancer.

So when you go to www.microsoft.com, for example (and I don't know if M$ is really an Akamai customer), you'll actually be redirected seamlessly to a server is either physically (same country) and/or logically (# of hops) closer to you.

It's normally transparent, but blocking their URLs would be a bad thing if you want to visit some of the biggest sites on the net.

[MineralMan]

7. It's OK. He already found a place that says it's a secret

Jewish plot of some kind. The secret's out, I guess. :shrug:

[Ignis]

9. It's the JOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOS!

Shoulda known! :P Damn them and their free desktop firewalls!