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Old 04-02-2008, 10:56 AM  
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Originally Posted by Eman - PG View Post
Try doing a traceroute from an IP outside the United States on a Level3 CDN enabled site. It goes from Europe to the US and back to Europe. Like 30 hops.
Because of the way a CDN works, a traceroute is not a good test. Also, traditionally, the site itself is not usually on the CDN...only the content is, so if you traceroute the site, you're just hitting the host the site is on, not hitting the actual CDN.

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