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