It seems that Microsoft is Akamai'zing as we speak..
--Kauto
Kauto Huopio - kauto.huopio@ficora.fi
Information Security Adviser / CERT-FI -coordinator
Finnish Communications Regulatory Authority / CERT-FI
tel. +358-9-6966772, fax. +358-9-6966515
CERT-FI duty desk +358-9-6966510 / http://www.cert.fi
Yeah:
7 sl-gw29-nyc-0-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.13.16) 8.728 ms 8.674 ms
8 sl-ft-10-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.171.90) 12.338 ms 11.911 ms
9 P13-0.NYKCR2.New-york.opentransit.net (193.251.241.30) 37.556 ms
10 P2-0.NYKBB5.New-york.opentransit.net (193.251.241.230) 12.385 ms
11 81.52.249.16 (81.52.249.16) 13.164 ms 19.364 ms 12.446 ms
Interestingly, there's no reverse dns for 81.52.249.16 and it shows as
being RIPE space...allocated to Akamai...do you suppose this is to
minimize embarassment to MS that they would have to use Akamai?