[silisili]

> Did they really want to point "developer.apple.com", a web site, to "developer-cdn.apple.com.akadns.net", which is a DNS server.

It's just a CNAME, meaning go look that up. It does not indicate that developer-cdn.apple.com.akadns.net is a DNS server.

The above seems to indicate that somewhere in the chain of resolving developer-cdn.apple.com.akadns.net, a DNS server refused the query. A dig +trace should indicate which.