[Outages-discussion] [outages] Akamai Geolocation Concerns

Gary Leato leato2010 at gmail.com
Fri Jan 17 17:13:10 EST 2020


I work in K12 as well and had problems with my GeoIP filter with both of
those sites as well.
For office depot, I mapped these IPs to be in the US.

92.123.196.167
   2.16.33.76
 88.221.37.87

On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 1:13 PM Dan White via Outages <outages at outages.org>
wrote:

> We are seeing some geolocation oddities with a couple of websites hosted
> at, or resolved by, Akamai.
>
> Two hostnames I'm looking at include:
>
> business.officedepot.com
> www.teacherspayteachers.com
>
> 'A' records for both have a TTL of 20 seconds, and randomly resolve to IPs
> in the US, and Europe (we are in the US/Oklahoma).
>
> For example, business.officedepot.com is resolving to both 96.17.32.230
> and
> 88.221.37.87 (at different times). I've verified the same inconsistent
> behavior against 8.8.8.8 and 1.1.1.1.
>
> This is causing issues for an educational customer of ours. Is anyone aware
> of issues within Akamai that may be causing them to source content from
> Europe?
>
> --
> Dan White
> BTC Broadband
> Network Admin Lead
> Ph  918.366.0248 (direct)   main: (918)366-8000
> Fax 918.366.6610            email: dwhite at mybtc.com
> http://www.btcbroadband.com
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