What is *.bb.sky.com doing on port 80 (HTTP)?

[gymno]

I always check the whois type sites whenever i have a ip address change.

The only one that ever gets it right & lists my actual town is here:
IP addresses - utrace - locate IP addresses and domainnames

All others show me as being in london or skipton.

[Isitme]

I always check the whois type sites whenever i have a ip address change.

The only one that ever gets it right & lists my actual town is here:
IP addresses - utrace - locate IP addresses and domainnames

All others show me as being in london or skipton.

It would be right for me too, if I lived in Cheadle, wherever that is.

[gymno]

Think he was in oceans' eleven

[Scubbie]

Don't they use the SatNav on the iPad to get this information?

[Isitme]

I think Apple Location Services uses a combination of cellular, Wi-Fi, and GPS. If you don't have 2/3g it uses 'crowd sourced' WiFi. This means it looks at WiFi networks around you and uses that to work out where you are.

[dragon2611]

I think Apple Location Services uses a combination of cellular, Wi-Fi, and GPS. If you don't have 2/3g it uses 'crowd sourced' WiFi. This means it looks at WiFi networks around you and uses that to work out where you are.

I think Scubbie was referring to apple Maps and it's well known issues with not actually getting places in the correct location :-/

[mmarsh]

Well if you are connecting using Sky broadband you have got to use the Sky servers. The b0fff641.bb.sky.com you quote, is the host name of the server, located near Skipton in Yorkshire. IP address 176.255.246.65, That is all.

So fundamentally wrong, wrong, wrong! Go and read O'Reilly's "TCP/IP Network Administration" book. In the TCP/IP 5 layer model, routing protocols have nothing to do with the HTTP protocol. As a home user, my IP packets are routed to the internet via gateways (e.g. routers running RIP software) that you can see using utilities like 'netstat -nr' and 'traceroute'. Routing protocols work around the Internet Layer. If SKY wanted to, they could direct all outbound HTTP requests directly to the internet without involving their own bb.sky.com web servers. The HTTP protocol is defined at the Application Layer and has nothing to do with routing. So my question stills stands. Why are the bb.sky.com web servers there and what do they do? As they are Akamai web servers I assume that they are probably relieving SKY of web traffic but that's just a guess.

[NewsreadeR]

As they are Akamai web servers I assume that they are probably relieving SKY of web traffic but that's just a guess.

At a guess, probably for allowing people to download stuff for On Demand etc, I would assume that Sky have these servers etc at various exchanges, so as to stop the need to shift data around their network. Perhaps?

[dragon2611]

As I said earlier it wouldn't surprise me if Akamai have on network CDN nodes given the size of sky as an ISP.

Sites like the BBC.etc use Akamai to serve the media content/images.etc

[NewsreadeR]

As I said earlier it wouldn't surprise me if Akamai have on network CDN nodes given the size of sky as an ISP.

Sites like the BBC.etc use Akamai to serve the media content/images.etc

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