So last night I was watching an old James Bond movie on my iMac. While watching it, I was doing some surfing and for fun I checked out Little Snitch to see what was going on with my network.
To my surprise, all the network traffic from Safari was coming from ax.su.itunes.com. I made sure there were no other applications running, and I closed all my Safari tabs, only leaving the one Netflix movie window open. Sure enough, Safari kept streaming the video from ax.su.itunes.com!
But the really strange thing is I tried to watch the same movie again this morning, but this time it streamed from ...icdn.nflximg.com.
I assume that Netflix uses load-balancing across multiple server farms for streaming videos. Could it be that Netflix has some agreement with Apple to stream movies from their servers?! Or maybe Apple is looking to purchase Netflix?
I really don't know... just speculating and wondering.
To my surprise, all the network traffic from Safari was coming from ax.su.itunes.com. I made sure there were no other applications running, and I closed all my Safari tabs, only leaving the one Netflix movie window open. Sure enough, Safari kept streaming the video from ax.su.itunes.com!
But the really strange thing is I tried to watch the same movie again this morning, but this time it streamed from ...icdn.nflximg.com.
I assume that Netflix uses load-balancing across multiple server farms for streaming videos. Could it be that Netflix has some agreement with Apple to stream movies from their servers?! Or maybe Apple is looking to purchase Netflix?
I really don't know... just speculating and wondering.