I have been trying to get streaming video served by Akamai and using the platform player working for some time now. As this is increasingly a popular medium for flash content delivery I am guessing its going to be a topic for others in future.
So my question is this, how to create a rule to permit Akamai/The Platform without bypassing users entirely?
Anyone who wishes to have a crack at this can test using video at http://www.sbs.com.au/cyclingcentral/
Appreciate if anyone who can point me in the right direction, its driving me mad.
- What I discovered is this, Akamai use multiple servers to deliver your content so at any time you might have multiple connections (ip addresses) for one flash file.
- Its dynamic.
- Its likely being blocked by the intrusion prevention even though there are no logs to confirm this.
- Unable to capture any logs at all anywhere showing a problem.
- Bypassing an individual user by source IP solves the problem (but is not the correct answer).
- Bypassing the whole dest address range does not work suggesting the inbound communication is broken supporting the intrusion prevention hypothesis.
So my question is this, how to create a rule to permit Akamai/The Platform without bypassing users entirely?
Anyone who wishes to have a crack at this can test using video at http://www.sbs.com.au/cyclingcentral/
Appreciate if anyone who can point me in the right direction, its driving me mad.