Use of <akadns>

[Edsonet]

When Microsoft ran into it's problems last week, they started using a CNAME
for <www.microsoft.com> called <www.microsoft.akadns.net>. Things are back
to normal this week, but I noticed today that Yahoo is doing the same
thing. Requests for <login.yahoo.com> return <login.yahoo.akadns.net> and a
list of the root servers. I doubt that we will ever learn the real truth
about what happened to Microsoft, but it would be nice to have an insight
into why these 2 giants are doing this.

Anybody have any ideas?

J.A. Coutts
Systems Engineer
Edsonet/TravPro