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Re:Apple’s CDN Now Live: Has Paid Deals With ISPs, Massive C... by js2 on Thursday July 31, 2014 @03:56PM (#8116594)
Not using your ISP's DNS can confound CDNs. In particular, I had to revert to my ISP's DNS servers from Google's specifically because my AppleTV was unable to stream movies otherwise. This was when Google DNS first launched, but you might give it a shot.

I happen to have a router running dnsmasq, so I could use different upstream DNS servers depending upon the query (i.e. route CDN domain queries to my ISP and everything else to Google), but I found it not worth the trouble. TWC's DNS isn't that bad... I do override their search page for non-existant domains with NXDOMAIN however.

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Re:Apple’s CDN Now Live: Has Paid Deals With ISPs, Massive C... by rdl on Thursday July 31, 2014 @05:34PM (#8117131)
This is why anycast is better than DNS for cdn, IMHO :)
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Re:Apple’s CDN Now Live: Has Paid Deals With ISPs, Massive C... by Hengjie on Friday August 01, 2014 @11:36AM (#8120575)
How easy is it to set up any cast as opposed to geo-DNS routing?
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Re:Apple’s CDN Now Live: Has Paid Deals With ISPs, Massive C... by coherentpony on Thursday July 31, 2014 @04:32PM (#8116809)
That's useful information that I didn't know. Thanks for sharing.
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