Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From:	Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com>
To:	gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject:	Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Akamai allowed through firewall?
Date:	Fri, 08 Jan 2010 21:08:45
Message-Id:	`49bf44f11001081308s117dde59n1868c528815e5dc5@mail.gmail.com`
In Reply to:	Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Akamai allowed through firewall? by Alan McKinnon

1	>> I was going through some firewall rules today, and it looks like I
2	>> allowed an IP address that resolves to akamai.com to be accessed for
3	>> http from a restricted machine. Does that make sense to anyone?
4	>>
5	>> - Grant
6	>>
7	>
8	> Yes. akamai is a download server used by many commercial vendors to host
9	> package downloads. You likely enabled it to be able to install some binary
10	> package onto a single machine.
11
12	Thank you Alan.
13
14	- Grant