On 2013-05-02, at 12:10, Joe Abley <jab...@hopcount.ca> wrote: > On 2013-05-02, at 11:59, Charles Gucker <cguc...@onesc.net> wrote: > >> That's not entirely true. You can easily do lookup for >> whoami.akamai.net and it will return the unicast address for the node >> in question (provided the local resolver is able to do the >> resolution). This is a frequent lookup that I do when I don't know >> what actual anycast node I'm using. > > Using 8.8.8.8 to tell me about whoami.akamai.net tells me what Akamai > authoritative server Google last used to answer that query.
Oh, now that I poke at it, it seems like whoami.akamai.net is telling me about the address of the resolver I used, rather than the address of the akamai node I hit. Never mind, I understand now :-) Joe
