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www.bbc.co.uk
CDN
Behind Fastly: origin host hidden
- CDN
Fastlyfastly.com
How we know
3 signals- NetworkAS54113Fastly
- CNAMEbbc.map.fastly.netFastly
- Headerx-served-by: cache-bma-essb1270067-BMAFastly
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How CDN detection works
A content delivery network (CDN) caches a site on servers around the world and answers visitors from the closest one. To do that, the CDN has to sit in the request path: DNS points the domain at the CDN, and the CDN adds its own headers to every response. Both leave signals that anyone can read.
When a CDN proxies the traffic, the origin server stays behind it. The IP address you resolve belongs to the CDN, so a plain IP lookup names Cloudflare or Fastly, not the company that runs the site. A full hosting check reads the platform signals too, and names the host when the site runs on a known platform such as Shopify or Vercel.
- cf-ray
- Cloudflare request ID, sent on every proxied response
- x-amz-cf-id
- Amazon CloudFront request ID
- x-served-by
- Fastly cache node that served the response
- x-akamai-transformed
- Akamai changed the response on the way
- CNAME
- Alias to a CDN host, such as edgekey.net for Akamai
- ASN
- Network that owns the IP address, such as AS13335
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