This isn't quite how it works. The point of Akamai's service is to resolve to different servers based on your (network) proximity to them. If you use some web-based DNS resolver, you are going to get a server closest to that resolver -- not closest to you. And who knows when that particular Akamai server is going to be taken down? Happens all the time -- and their DNS servers dynamically map you somewhere else.
For most sites using Akamai, there is no "real" address -- you ALWAYS are going through an Akamai server. It is simply a matter of which one. The Akamai server is the one that connects to the company's server (if it needs to).
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This isn't quite how it works. The point of Akamai's service is to resolve to different servers based on your (network) proximity to them. If you use some web-based DNS resolver, you are going to get a server closest to that resolver -- not closest to you. And who knows when that particular Akamai server is going to be taken down? Happens all the time -- and their DNS servers dynamically map you somewhere else.
For most sites using Akamai, there is no "real" address -- you ALWAYS are going through an Akamai server. It is simply a matter of which one. The Akamai server is the one that connects to the company's server (if it needs to).