The Domain Name System (DNS) tools “whoami.akamai.net” and its alias “whoami.akamai.com” have been used for many years, often as a step in the process for diagnosing how a content delivery network (CDN) is directing traffic, locality, and network reachability issues. Whoami was originally introduced as a quick solution that, as often happens, ended up sticking around for far longer than expected.

\r\n Now we're slightly modifying its function by adding support for the modern internet (IPv6 and ECS), and moving whoami over to its own domain. If you’re a user of the legacy whoami names, you should start your migration to the new names below to prevent interruptions.

\r\n I'll go into this in more detail below, but if you're familiar with whoami, you would typically do this:

\r\n \r\ndig +short A whoami.akamai.net\r\n

\r\n Note : dig, if you're not familiar with it, is short for "domain information groper" and is a network administration command-line tool for querying Domain Name System…