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Question of the Day: What's the most interesting small town you've visited in South Africa?
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DStvNothingOn
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Im Not with Cool Ideas or AH, but what I found interesting is that its been switching between the two a few times and hour.
The below 15 minutes apart each. Note my ISP uses 1.1.1.1 as default DNS.
The below 15 minutes apart each. Note my ISP uses 1.1.1.1 as default DNS.
Code:
Non-authoritative answer:
r-live-cache.akamaized.net canonical name = a1075.dscw16.akamai.net.
Name: a1075.dscw16.akamai.net
Address: 2.16.244.16
Name: a1075.dscw16.akamai.net
Address: 2.16.244.11
Name: a1075.dscw16.akamai.net
Address: 2.16.244.17
Name: a1075.dscw16.akamai.net
Address: 2.16.244.10
Name: a1075.dscw16.akamai.net
Address: 2.16.244.42
Name: a1075.dscw16.akamai.net
Address: 2.16.244.41
Name: a1075.dscw16.akamai.net
Address: 2.16.244.35
Name: a1075.dscw16.akamai.net
Address: 2.16.244.33
Name: a1075.dscw16.akamai.net
Address: 2.16.244.18
*************** % nslookup r-live-cache.akamaized.net
Server: 1.1.1.1
Address: 1.1.1.1#53
Non-authoritative answer:
r-live-cache.akamaized.net canonical name = a1075.dscw16.akamai.net.
Name: a1075.dscw16.akamai.net
Address: 197.80.130.136
Name: a1075.dscw16.akamai.net
Address: 197.80.130.129
Name: a1075.dscw16.akamai.net
Address: 197.80.130.121
Name: a1075.dscw16.akamai.net
Address: 197.80.130.82
Name: a1075.dscw16.akamai.net
Address: 197.80.130.97
Name: a1075.dscw16.akamai.net
Address: 197.80.130.131
Name: a1075.dscw16.akamai.net
Address: 197.80.130.73
Name: a1075.dscw16.akamai.net
Address: 197.80.130.72
Name: a1075.dscw16.akamai.net
Address: 197.80.130.75
*********** nslookup r-live-cache.akamaized.net
Server: 1.1.1.1
Address: 1.1.1.1#53
Non-authoritative answer:
r-live-cache.akamaized.net canonical name = a1075.dscw16.akamai.net.
Name: a1075.dscw16.akamai.net
Address: 2.16.244.10
Name: a1075.dscw16.akamai.net
Address: 2.16.244.27
Name: a1075.dscw16.akamai.net
Address: 2.16.244.24
Name: a1075.dscw16.akamai.net
Address: 2.16.244.18
Name: a1075.dscw16.akamai.net
Address: 2.16.244.49
Name: a1075.dscw16.akamai.net
Address: 2.16.244.41
Name: a1075.dscw16.akamai.net
Address: 2.16.244.33
Name: a1075.dscw16.akamai.net
Address: 2.16.244.48
Name: a1075.dscw16.akamai.net
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Your ISP probably doesn't have any on net clusters, I could be wrong. So it's a different situation.
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Funny thing is i HEARD never checked myself that Tiktok also uses Akamai and i use to often get "your network is unstable" in the app meanwhile my wifi speed tests on 5GHZ are 100/100... Last few days i have not gotten any alertsSpotify has been working like magic the last few days
I've had terrible Akamai speeds since the dual cable break a few weeks back.
I've tried multiple DNS, and each seems to have its own issues.
Using either Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 or Google 8.8.8.8, from my experience, has been dreadful for services that utilize Akamai content.
There must be some super screwed Akamai servers that have not re-enabled the upstream syncing or something because the experience of late has been nothing short of infuriating.
It's honestly nothing short of completely broken.
How can one expect this performance on two of the most popular DNS providers?
Especially given my general line speed in all other tasks has been excellent
I've tried multiple DNS, and each seems to have its own issues.
Using either Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 or Google 8.8.8.8, from my experience, has been dreadful for services that utilize Akamai content.
There must be some super screwed Akamai servers that have not re-enabled the upstream syncing or something because the experience of late has been nothing short of infuriating.
It's honestly nothing short of completely broken.
How can one expect this performance on two of the most popular DNS providers?
Especially given my general line speed in all other tasks has been excellent
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Just use CISP DNS it resolves to their caches and avoids Optinet and their kak caches
Yeah. Cloudflare doesn't actually make the internet "faster" as they claim...
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A lot of people don't realise ISP's have a DNS so they can actually help steer your traffic to cache's etc where the big guys like Google/Cloudflare don't actually utilize it, its just there whether it runs well or not...
This is happening again as of a week or so ago.
When watching Windows' Resource Monitor, it seems to be slow when downloading from
When watching Windows' Resource Monitor, it seems to be slow when downloading from
172.66.1.120, tracert is as follows:
Code:
Tracing route to 172.66.1.120 over a maximum of 30 hops
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms terran.mordritch.com [192.168.1.1]
2 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms 100-100-101-60.loopback [100.100.101.60]
3 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms loopback0.tri-jb3-dc21-a21-cr.cisp.co.za [154.0.0.75]
4 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms lo0.terjhb1br1.cisp.co.za [154.0.0.82]
5 3 ms 3 ms 3 ms 196-60-9-75.ixp.joburg [196.60.9.75]
6 2 ms 2 ms 3 ms 197.234.240.5
7 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms 172.66.1.120
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HI there, apologies for the delay.
Can you confirm what DNS you are using? That address appears to be cloudflare when checking the IP info.
Thank you for confirming, are you able to share a NSlookup to Spotify? As I believe it should pull from our Akamai cache,
Can you also confirm normal operation otherwise? Is your connection performing optimially when doing speed tests/ MTR With no loss?
I could do a nslookup to spotify.com, but I don't think that necessarily correlates with the hostnames they are using for the song downloads. I don't know offhand how I might work out what hostname they use for that, do you by any chance?
Unfortunately not, but what you could do is add IPVFOO to your browser, and listen/download songs via the web browser and it should show you, in real time, the CDN's in use.
I did however find these articles, which seems to be when you advised the issue started roughly.
A massive Google Cloud outage messed up Google Home, Spotify, and other services
Turn it off and back on again.
www.theverge.com
Spotify was down — here's the latest on the outage
Users around the world can't listen to their tunes
It could very well be fallout issues since this incident
It seems it is actually using Akamai (maybe it varies), speeds don't seem great, but maybe they're normal.
Here is an nslookup:
Here is an nslookup:
Code:
Tracing route to a2-21-98-11.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com [2.21.98.11]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms 100-100-101-60.loopback [100.100.101.60]
3 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms loopback0.tri-jb3-dc21-a21-cr.cisp.co.za [154.0.0.75]
4 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms lo0.terjhb1br1.cisp.co.za [154.0.0.82]
5 11 ms 11 ms 6 ms 196-60-11-85.ixp.joburg [196.60.11.85]
6 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms a2-21-98-11.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com [2.21.98.11]I'd be interested in a tracert from you to the IPs it's hitting.
I'm in Jo'burg and according to the tracert am going via an internet exchange which I wouldn't expect if Akamai has a PoP on Cool Ideas own network.
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Strange, I see that's to Akamai as opposed to our ON-Net Cache directly.
But I did find this Cool website where you can quickly see the CDN's for a website/service
This is what I got for spotify, and seems it matches the Akamai one you got (encore.scdn.co)
I see it does vary and can go via Fastly or Google, and might depend how they decide to steer traffic. Akamai is normally pretty decent even going direct.