Michael Chaney wrote:

 No. Like most big companies, they're using Akamai.

 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/harrycooper/htdocs$ nslookup www.yahoo.com
 Server: 68.52.0.6 Address: 68.52.0.6#53

 Non-authoritative answer: www.yahoo.com canonical name =
 www.yahoo.akadns.net. Name: www.yahoo.akadns.net Address:
 68.142.226.47 Name: www.yahoo.akadns.net Address: 68.142.226.41
 Name: www.yahoo.akadns.net Address: 68.142.226.51 Name:
 www.yahoo.akadns.net Address: 68.142.226.36 Name:
 www.yahoo.akadns.net Address: 68.142.226.55 Name:
 www.yahoo.akadns.net Address: 68.142.226.53 Name:
 www.yahoo.akadns.net Address: 68.142.226.38 Name:
 www.yahoo.akadns.net Address: 68.142.226.48

 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/harrycooper/htdocs$ whois 68.142.226.48

 OrgName: Inktomi Corporation OrgID: INKT Address: 4100
 East Third Avenue City: Foster City StateProv: CA
 PostalCode: 94404 Country: US

 NetRange: 68.142.192.0 - 68.142.255.255 CIDR:
 68.142.192.0/18 NetName: INKTOMI-BLK-4 NetHandle:
 NET-68-142-192-0-1 Parent: NET-68-0-0-0-0 NetType: Direct
 Allocation NameServer: NS1.YAHOO.COM NameServer: NS2.YAHOO.COM
 NameServer: NS3.YAHOO.COM NameServer: NS4.YAHOO.COM NameServer:
 NS5.YAHOO.COM Comment: For general abuse contact
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Comment: For Web Crawler questions
 please visit Comment:
 http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/slurp/ RegDate: 2004-03-24
 Updated: 2005-02-18

 AbuseHandle: NA258-ARIN AbuseName: Netblock Admin AbusePhone:
 +1-408-349-3300 AbuseEmail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

 OrgTechHandle: ZI35-ARIN OrgTechName: Inktomi Corporation
 OrgTechPhone: +1-650-653-2800 OrgTechEmail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

 # ARIN WHOIS database, last updated 2005-03-08 19:10 # Enter ? for
 additional hints on searching ARIN's WHOIS database.

 That's a whole nother ballgame.

Michael

I'm aware that yahoo and other big companies is hosted by akamai , what I'm saying is yahoo is using a web accelerator such as squid or lightweight httpd for their static pages, go check your squid access logs to verify it.

$ dig ns yimg.com

; <<>> DiG 9.2.3 <<>> ns yimg.com
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 37
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 5, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;yimg.com.                      IN      NS

;; ANSWER SECTION:
yimg.com.               171025  IN      NS      ns1.yahoo.com.
yimg.com.               171025  IN      NS      ns2.yahoo.com.
yimg.com.               171025  IN      NS      ns3.yahoo.com.
yimg.com.               171025  IN      NS      ns4.yahoo.com.
yimg.com.               171025  IN      NS      ns5.yahoo.com.

;; Query time: 15 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.100.254#53(192.168.100.254)
;; WHEN: Thu Mar 10 00:29:25 2005
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 122

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