[Gllug] Mystery web server

Nix nix at esperi.org.uk
Thu May 26 09:54:29 UTC 2005


On Wed, 25 May 2005, Richard Jones mused:
> I'm guessing that speedera.net is something like Akamai.

Yes, pretty much. A number of large sites use them. You can tell if
you've recently gone to a speedera-using site by a heap of peculiar
pings from networkologically distinct sites (Snort spots them easily),
as speedera tries to determine which one of its servers is closest.

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