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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 25, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 10, 2012
Eric Sven-johan Swildens, Mountain View, CA (US);
Richard David Day, Upton, MA (US);
Ajit K. Gupta, Fremont, CA (US);
Eric Sven-Johan Swildens, Mountain View, CA (US);
Richard David Day, Upton, MA (US);
Ajit K. Gupta, Fremont, CA (US);
Akamai Technologies, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a method for determining metrics of a content delivery and global traffic management network provides service metric probes that determine the service availability and metric measurements of types of services provided by a content delivery machine. A server in the network has a metric test associated with each service supported by the server which the service metric probes periodically performs metric tests on and records the metric test results which are periodically sent to all of the DNS servers in the network. Generic load probes also report metric test results. DNS servers use the test result updates to determine the best server to return for a given DNS name.