[pca] Downloading patches hangs.

[Glenn Satchell]

On 07/16/10 18:53, Martin Paul wrote:
> Hi Jeremy,
>
>> I'm trying to download patches via pca and it looks like it connects but
>> just hangs there. I've verified that our firewalls are open.
>
> Have you used pca before, and did it work then?
>
> Everything looks fine up to here:
>
>> Resolving a248.e.akamai.net... 65.49.92.234, 65.49.92.122, 65.49.92.131,
>> ...
>>
>> Connecting to a248.e.akamai.net|65.49.92.234|:443... connected.
>
> I don't think that the IP addresses belong to Akamai (I could be wrong
> though, I don't know the internals of Akamais servers worldwide). Whois
> tells me that they are owned by:
>
> OrgName: Hurricane Electric, Inc.
> OrgID: HURC
> Address: 760 Mission Court
> City: Fremont
> StateProv: CA

It's almost impossible to tell. Akamai can use IP addresses within the 
ISP's range to host the Akamai services. There's must be thousands or 
tens of thousands of Akamai hosts worldwide.

-- 
regards,
-glenn