Akamai Load Balancing and Internet Congestion in Azerbaijan
(Updated 16th December 2016) For the past weeks, we have carefully been monitoring the artificial network congestion in Azerbaijan against a few selected media sites.Two of the websites that are suffering congestion are hosted by Akamai: Azadliq Radio and Voice of America. Akamai’s proprietary load balancing system uses DNS to serve different IP addresses to […]
How Azerbaijan is trying to block main opposition media news
The 28th of November 2016, we received information from trusted sources[1] inside Azerbaijan that at least two independent news sites were loading poorly, namely Azadliq and Voice of America. Although some web requests seemed to arrive to azadliq.info and no obvious full blocking was talking place, we concluded that the only possible reason that the […]
