Don't confuse caching technologies with the servers that actually provide the content. MS did work with Akamai to help absorb the load of folks hitting Windowsupdate to get the Blaster patch, and its entirely possible that they've expanded this to other MS-owned sites as well. This "report" is, as usual, only telling that part of hte story that sounds "interesting". Jim Harrison MCP(NT4, W2K), A+, Network+, PCG http://isaserver.org/Jim_Harrison/ http://isatools.org Read the help / books / articles! On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 07:01:12 -0500 "Quillman Shawn (RBNA/CIT1.1) *" <Shawn.Quillman@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: http://www.ISAserver.org This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible.