Symantec's distribution of downloads utilizes a third-party content delivery
network (Akamai) to ensure high availability for our customers, and to
preclude any problems with specific servers (for example, off-line for
maintenance reasons, or extremely heavy server load) or with the Internet
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George,
akamai.net does web caching. They host large ammounts of content
around the world and depending on your locale, they will send you to
a closer server and hypothetically provide better response times. I
know Disney uses them on some of
George,
This is normal. Akamai provides content delivery services to a lot of
large companies.
Symantec is on thier posted customer list:
http://www.akamai.com/html/en/aa/customers.html
Regards,
David
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From: George [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday,
akamai is a load balancing service that essentially acts as a mirror for
heavily loaded sites. nav is using it to reduce the load on their
servers and to speed network downloads. is it safe? don't know, but it
is a legitimate service.
chris
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From: George
At 02:40 PM 11/8/01 -0500, you wrote:
It is theirs
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?mode_u=offmode_w=onsite=www.symantec.com>http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?mode_u=offmode_w=onsite=www.symantec.com
Thanks to all who replied to this rather naive question. Dumb though it was, I
