[outages] Akamai Geolocation Concerns

[Josh Luthman]

The IPs you're coming from, look what they say at the various geolocation
services here:

http://thebrotherswisp.com/index.php/geo-and-vpn/

Also, have you tried a local DNS server and not Google/Cloudflare Anycast
ones?

Josh Luthman
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On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 2:13 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
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